Cubi

Cubi is a series of stainless steel sculptures that are made up of cubes, rectangular solids and cylinders with spheroidal or flat endcaps. This series of 28 sculptures was the last of the artistic output of the American sculptor David Smith. On May 23rd, 1965, David Smith died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident, soon after the completion of Cubi XXVIII, which may or may not have been the last sculpture in this series he intended to create. Smith's assistant, Leon Pratt, did complete several sculptures that were underway at the time of Smith's death;^[1] however, none of these sculptures were from the Cubi series.

The first eleven Cubi sculptures were not completed in the order in which they are numbered, as evidenced by the following inscriptions Smith welded onto the base of each Cubi.^[1]

• Cubi I March 4-63
• Cubi II 25-10-63
• Cube III 11.10.1961 (Not Cubi III)
• Cubi IV 1/17/63
• Cubi V Jan 16 1963
• Cubi VI 3/21/63
• Cubi VII March 28, 1963
• Cubi VIII Dec 24 1962
• Cubi IX Oct.26 1961
• Cubi X April 4 '63
• Cubi XI 3-30-1963
• Cubi XII April 7 1963
• Cubi XIII March 25-1963
• Cubi XIV 9-25-63
• Cubi XV September 27 1963
• Cubi XVI 11.4-63
• Cubi XVII Dec. 4-'63
• Cubi XVIII February 14, 1964
• Cubi XIX 2-20-64
• Cubi XX 2-20-64
• Cubi XXI April 4, 1964
• Cubi XXII June 5-1964
• Cubi XXIII November 30 1964
• Cubi XXIV December 8, 1964
• Cubi XXV Jan 9 1965
• Cubi XXVI January 12 1965
• Cubi XXVII Mar 5 1965
• Cubi XXVIII 5-5-65

Cubi XXVIII

Cubi XXVIII, executed in 1965, is the name given to a large metal sculpture created by David Smith. Formerly housed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on November 9, 2005, the sculpture became the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction, selling for $23.8 million at Sotheby's New York auction house to art dealer Larry Gagosian who was acting on behalf of billionaire art collector Eli Broad. "This exceedingly rare work was the pinnacle of a four-decade career," said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art.

See also

• Cubi VII in the Art Institute of Chicago
• Cubi XI in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
• Cubi XII in the Hirshhorn Museum
• Cubi XXVI in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

References

External links

• Cubi I at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• Cubi II in the collection of Candida and Rebecca Smith [1]
• Cubi III at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Cubi IV at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Cubi V owned by the Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation
• Cubi VI at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel
• Cubi VII at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Cubi VIII at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
• Cubi IX at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Cubi X at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York
• Cubi XI owned by the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• Cubi XII at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
• Cubi XIII at the Princeton University Art Museum, in Princeton, New Jersey
• Cubi XIV at the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri
• Cubi XV at the San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego, California
• Cubi XVI at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• Cubi XVII at the Dallas Museum of Art
• Cubi XVIII at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Cubi XIX at the Tate Gallery
• Cubi XX at the UCLA Hammer Museum
• Cubi XXI at the Storm King Art Center owned by the Lipman Family Foundation
• Cubi XXII at the Yale University Art Gallery
• Cubi XXIII at the Los Angeles County Museum
• Cubi XXIV at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Cubi XXV owned by Jane Lang Davis
• Cubi XXVI at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• Cubi XXVII at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Cubi XXVIII purchased at auction in 2005 by Eli Broad