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Richard Smith

English, 1931-2016
Charles Richard "Dick" Smith was an English printmaker and painter. He Attended St Albans School of Art followed by post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1954-57. Smith shared a flat-cum-studio with Peter Blake in his second year at the RCA, and then again for two years after he left the college in 1957. When Terence Conran's Soup Kitchen opened on Fleet Street in the late 1950s, it featured a letter-collage mural by Smith and Blake. Michael Chow would later commission Smith to design installations for his restaurant in Los Angeles, and Chow and Conran have remained two of his biggest supporters. In 1959 he moved to New York to teach on a Harkness Fellowship, staying for two years, where he produced paintings combining the formal qualities of many of the American abstract painters which made references to American commercial culture. The artist's first solo exhibition was at the Green Gallery. As his work matured it tended to be more minimal, often painted using one colour with a second only as an accent. In trying to find ways of transposing ideas, Smith began to question the two-dimensional properties of art itself and to find ways by which a painting could express the shape of reality as he saw it. These principles he carried into his graphic work by introducing cut, folded and stapled elements into his prints; some works were multi-leaved screenprinting, and others printed onto three-dimensional fabricated metal. Smith returned to England in 1963 - specifically East Tytherton, Wiltshire where Howard Hodgkin was a neighbour - and gained critical acclaim for extending the boundaries of painting into three dimensions, creating sculptural shaped canvases with monumental presence, which literally protruded into the space of the gallery. Evocative titles such as Panatella and Revlon, and cosmetic, synthetic colours alluded to the consumer landscapes of urban America which had proved so influential. He showed at the Kasmin Gallery, a venture between Kas and the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava in New Bond Street, throughout the 60s, more-widely known as David Hockney's first gallery. Smith was invited to exhibit at the XXXV Venice Biennale as the official British artist in 1970. Smith taught with Richard Hamilton at Gateshead in 1965, where he met Mark Lancaster and Stephen Buckley, and again in 2000, becoming close to the artist and his wife, Terry. By the late 1960s Smith's ambition to produce paintings which shared a common sensibility with other media, such as film and photography, began to wane and he focused on the formal qualities of painting. First exhibited in New York in 1971, the traditional wooden supports of the canvases were replaced by aluminium rods and strings, allowing them to be hung freely in response to the surrounding architecture. Smith continued in the subsequent decades to construct site-specific works in public and private spaces often hanging from the ceilings or architectural supports. He resettled in Patchogue, New York in around 1977. Smith was awarded the CBE in 1971.
Average Sold Price
$1,323
Styles
Abstract
Materials
Etching
Lithograph
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'Snipe' Contemporary Bronze Wildlife Bird Sculpture by Richard Smith
'Snipe' Contemporary Bronze Wildlife Bird Sculpture by Richard Smith

Richard Smith'Snipe' Contemporary Bronze Wildlife Bird Sculpture by Richard Smith

$3,040

H 16 in W 5 in

'Snipe' Contemporary Bronze Wildlife Bird Sculpture by Richard Smith

By Richard Smith

Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Edition of 25 Richard Smith’s 'Snipe' is a beautifully poised bronze sculpture that captures the delicate elegance and quiet character of this elusive wading bird. Perched lightly u...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith

Materials

Bronze

Pieces of Eight (ochre square)

Richard SmithPieces of Eight (ochre square), 1977

$684

H 18.9 in W 39.38 in

Pieces of Eight (ochre square)

By Richard Smith

Located in London, GB

Edition of 35 48 x 100 cms (19 x 39.5 ins)

Category

1970s Abstract Richard Smith

Materials

Lithograph

Bramble, 1970 abstract lithograph by British Pop art pioneer Signed/N, Framed
Bramble, 1970 abstract lithograph by British Pop art pioneer Signed/N, Framed

Richard SmithBramble, 1970 abstract lithograph by British Pop art pioneer Signed/N, Framed, 1970

$1,500

H 37 in W 31.25 in D 1 in

Bramble, 1970 abstract lithograph by British Pop art pioneer Signed/N, Framed

By Richard Smith

Located in New York, NY

Richard Smith Bramble, 1970 Lithograph on wove paper Signed, numbered and dated 10/75 in pencil lower left Frame included: held in original vintage period frame Pencil signed, dated ...

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1970s Abstract Richard Smith

Materials

Pencil, Lithograph

Richard Smith, Signature Etching & Aquatint Signed 17/25 British Pop Art pioneer
Richard Smith, Signature Etching & Aquatint Signed 17/25 British Pop Art pioneer

Richard SmithRichard Smith, Signature Etching & Aquatint Signed 17/25 British Pop Art pioneer, 1997

$1,000

H 22.75 in W 18 in

Richard Smith, Signature Etching & Aquatint Signed 17/25 British Pop Art pioneer

By Richard Smith

Located in New York, NY

Richard Smith Signature, 1997 Etching and Aquatint 22 3/4 × 18 inches Edition 17/25 Signed and numbered 17/25 in graphite on the lower front RICHARD SMITH BIOGRAPHY Charles Richard ...

Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Richard Smith

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Seven from Logo Suite (Pink Blue) - 3D signed mixed media multiple #65/100
Seven from Logo Suite (Pink Blue) - 3D signed mixed media multiple #65/100

Richard SmithSeven from Logo Suite (Pink Blue) - 3D signed mixed media multiple #65/100, 1971

$2,000

H 23.5 in W 19.5 in D 3 in

Seven from Logo Suite (Pink Blue) - 3D signed mixed media multiple #65/100

By Richard Smith

Located in New York, NY

Richard Smith Seven from Logo Suite (Pink Blue), 1971 Silkscreen on 3-D Molded Plastic Over Wood Pencil signed, dated and numbered 65 from the edition of 75 on the front 23 1/2 × 19 ...

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1970s Abstract Geometric Richard Smith

Materials

Plastic, Wood, Mixed Media, Screen

Four Knots

Richard SmithFour Knots, 1976

$1,095

H 27.96 in W 29.93 in

Four Knots

By Richard Smith

Located in London, GB

Edition of 50 71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins) RSE023

Category

1970s Abstract Richard Smith

Materials

Etching

Abstract Minimalist Color Silkscreen Print Richard Smith On The Bowery Pop Art
Abstract Minimalist Color Silkscreen Print Richard Smith On The Bowery Pop Art

Richard SmithAbstract Minimalist Color Silkscreen Print Richard Smith On The Bowery Pop Art, 1969-1971

$2,000

H 25.5 in W 25.5 in

Abstract Minimalist Color Silkscreen Print Richard Smith On The Bowery Pop Art

By Richard Smith

Located in Surfside, FL

Richard Smith On the Bowery, 1969 - 1971 silkscreen on Schoeller's Parole Paper, edition of 100 + 20 A.P. 25.5 x 25.5 inches, signed, numbered 21/100 Screenprint in color on wove pa...

Category

1960s Pop Art Richard Smith

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Horizon II (Grey and Orange) - 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Lithograph Print
Horizon II (Grey and Orange) - 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Lithograph Print

Richard SmithHorizon II (Grey and Orange) - 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Lithograph Print, 1970

$2,739

H 13 in W 27.96 in

Horizon II (Grey and Orange) - 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Lithograph Print

By Richard Smith

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Richard Smith 1931-2016 Horizon II (Grey and Orange), 1970 lithograph 33 x 71 cm 13 x 28 in signed and numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil Charles Richard "Dick" Smith was an ...

Category

20th Century Richard Smith

Materials

Lithograph

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Richard Smith Sale Prices

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2026$795Prints and MultiplesPaper, Lithograph1972
2026$1,379Abstract PrintsMixed Media, Lithograph, Screen Print1973
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