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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
CARL RICHARD "DINGBAT" SMITH (1927 - 1989) Untitled.
Assemblage of nails on a wood panel, 1982. 1016x620 mm; 40x24 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Fairbank(s), AK" in ink, verso.
Provenance: private collection, Massachusetts.
This abstract form is a large wall relief made from thousands of nails, and an excellent example of the unusual practice of Charles Richard "Dingbat" Smith. A Pittsburgh native, Smith worked in sculpture using only nails from the 1960s through the late 1980s. While little is known about him today, this self-taught artist's artworks are highly prized by collectors, and deserve much wider recognition. A similar 1982 example of his late abstract artwork is in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art.
