In 1998, Leon Black bought a prominent David Smith sculpture to donate to MoMA. The artist’s reputation—and museum presence—has always placed him among the first rank of American artists who charted a course from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism and beyond before his early death in 1965. But Smith’s market lags his contemporaries. In this interview recorded this month at Mnuchin Gallery, Robert Mnuchin, Sukanya Rajaratnam of Mnuchin Gallery talk with Peter Stevens of the David Smith Estate about their upcoming show David Smith: The Forgings at Frieze Masters on October 15-19.
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