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1906-1965
MEMORY HEAD
24 3/4 by 13 by 7 1/4 in. 62.9 by 33 by 18.4 cm.
signed twice
bronze, brass and copper
Executed in December 1955.
PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist
Fine Arts Associates, New York
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Helen W. Benjamin, New York (acquired from the above in 1964)
Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 1996, Lot 9
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale
EXHIBITED
New York, Fine Arts Associates, David Smith, 1957, cat. no. 4, illustrated
New York, Fine Arts Associates, Summer - Fall Catalogue, 1959, cat. no. 138, illustrated
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, 1967, cat. no. 156, p. 8, illustrated
LITERATURE
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum [and traveling], David Smith 1906-1965: Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, cat. no. 277, p. 74 illustrated
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, cat. no. 344, p. 68, illustrated
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