Live Auction 18977Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
David Smith (1906-1965)
Lot 338 Property from a Private Collection

David Smith (1906-1965)

Untitled (The Rooster)

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 375,000

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David Smith (1906-1965)
Untitled (The Rooster)
steel on wood base
overall: 19 ½ x 9 7/8 x 8 in. (49.5 x 25.1 x 20 cm.)
Executed circa 1937-1938.

Mr. and Mrs. G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh
Private collection, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1976

Specialist note


The artist has been the element of nature, and the arbiter of nature; he who has sat on a cloud and viewed it from afar, but at the same time has identified himself as one of nature's parts.
—David Smith