Nov 12, 2015 - Sale 2398

Sale 2398 - Lot 229A

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ROBERT SMITHSON
Planaria.

Gouache with collage on paper, 1962. 335x260 mm; 13 1/4x10 1/4 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, upper left recto. Ex-collection Galleria George Lester, Rome, with the ink stamp verso.

Smithson (1938-1973), who is best known for the famous earth sculpture Spiral Jetty, 1970-present, had a show at Galleria George Lester in Rome that ran in the summer of 1961.