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Lot 237: Two Frogs Guarding the Palace

Robert Smithson - 1938-1973

Auction House: Christie's

Auction Location: USA

Auction Date: 2008

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Artist or Maker: Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

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Description: Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
Two Frogs Guarding the Palace
signed, titled and dated 'TWO FROGS Guarding the Palace 62 R Smithson' (upper right)
gouache, oil and ink on printed paper collage on paper
24 x 15ΒΌ in. (60.9 x 38.7 cm.)
Executed in 1962.

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Provenance: Acquired from the artist
George Lester, Connecticut and Rome
By descent to the present owner

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Exhibited: London, Marlene Eleini Gallery, Robert Smithson: Early Works , March-May 1988.
Oslo, The National Museum of Contemporary Art; Stockholm, Modern Museum and Ishoj, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Robert Smithson Retrospective: Works 1955-1973 , February 1999-January 2000.

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Notes: Robert Smithson: From the Archives of the Galleria George Lester, Rome



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