Four paintings that Lucien Smith completed in the final months of his life will be shown publicly for the first time this month. The works open on October 25 at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott, on Long Island, where they will hang for a month. They are not for sale.

The paintings were made during "Delay of Game," a performance Smith staged this summer in collaboration with the gallery at Camp Hero in Montauk. The columnist had reported on the performance when it took place, and all four of the exhibition's paintings date from that event.

Smith died on September 7 at the age of 37. The Wainscott exhibition is the first presentation devoted to the final body of work he produced — four paintings completed in the summer before his death.

News of the show was disclosed in Wet Paint, Artnet News's weekly column of original scoops from the New York art world. The column noted the works' unusual terms: held off the market entirely and shown for a single month, they are being presented as a memorial rather than as inventory.

The decision to keep the paintings out of the market sets the exhibition apart from the usual posthumous handling of a young artist's final works, which often become the most contested part of an estate. Here the gallery is framing the four paintings as a coda to Smith's practice — visible to the public for a brief window. The four works will not be offered for sale at any point during the month-long run.