Cubi is a series of stainless steel sculptures, comprising of cubes, rectagular prisms, and the like. This series was the last project of David Smith, American contemporary sculptor. David Roland Smith ( March 9, 1906 - May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best This series comprises 28 sculptures. David Smith was killed unexpectedly in a car crash soon after the completion of the last sculpture (titled Cubi XXVIII).

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. This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. 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. The word million In standard English, the -lli- in million is pronounced with an l-sound followed by a Sotheby's ( is the world's second oldest Auction house in continuous operation (the oldest being Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674 New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Larry Gagosian (born April 19, 1945, Los Angeles) born Lawrence Gilbert Gagosian is an Armenian-American Art dealer who Eli Broad (born June 6, 1933) a native of Detroit Michigan is a Jewish American billionaire who presently resides in Los Angeles, "This exceedingly rare work was the pinnacle of a four-decade career," said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art and the auctioneer for the evening.

See also

• Cubi VII

External links

• Cubi XX at the UCLA Hammer Museum
• Cubi XXVII at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Cubi VII is a Sculpture by David Smith in the Art Institute of Chicago North Stanley McCormick Memorial Court (aka North Garden north of the For The Hammer Museum in Haines Alaska see Hammer Museum (Haines AK The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center or the Hammer Museum as it is This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum

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