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Willem de Kooning
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
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Description
- Willem de Kooning
- Boudoir
- signed
- oil, enamel and charcoal on paper
- 13 by 20 3/4 in. 33 by 53 cm.
- Executed in 1950.
Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tishler, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Raskin, New York
Collection of Harold Diamond, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1967
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Raskin, New York
Collection of Harold Diamond, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1967
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Word and Image, December 1965 - January 1966, cat. no. 20
Detroit, J.L. Hudson Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March - April 1968, illustrated
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, de Kooning, Gorky, Kline, Pollock, October - November 1968
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Tate Gallery; New York, Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, September 1968 - September 1969, cat. no. 41, illustrated (Amsterdam), cat no. 43, p. 66, illustrated (New York)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983 - September 1984, cat. no. 178, p. 172, illustrated in color (New York and Berlin), p. 85, illustrated in color (Paris)
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Liquefying Cubism, October 1994 - January 1995, pl. 38, illustrated in color
Detroit, J.L. Hudson Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March - April 1968, illustrated
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, de Kooning, Gorky, Kline, Pollock, October - November 1968
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Tate Gallery; New York, Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, September 1968 - September 1969, cat. no. 41, illustrated (Amsterdam), cat no. 43, p. 66, illustrated (New York)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983 - September 1984, cat. no. 178, p. 172, illustrated in color (New York and Berlin), p. 85, illustrated in color (Paris)
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Liquefying Cubism, October 1994 - January 1995, pl. 38, illustrated in color
Literature
Thomas B. Hess, Willem de Kooning, New York 1959, pl. 105, p. 83, illustrated
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. Please contact the Contemporary Department at (212) 606-7254 for a professional condition report prepared by Terrence Mahon. Framed under Plexiglas.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more and more things in—drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space."
Willem de Kooning