Plate 54: Hairy Dragonfly and Two Darters by Joris Hoefnagel https://www.nga.gov/artworks/69719-plate-54-hairy-dragonfly-and-two-darters
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
Die was one of Tony Smith’s first steel sculptures and the inspiration for much of his later work. He had made a six-inch cardboard model in black in 1962, but he did not have Die fabricated until 1968.
The two posthumous examples belong, respectively, to a private collector in Philadelphia
Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1950, no cat. 1955 Toulouse-Lautrec, Philadelphia
at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia