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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Willem De Kooning

Standing Figure

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Willem De Kooning

1904 - 1997


Standing Figure

incised with the artist's signature, date 1969/80 and number AP 2/3 (on the lateral edge)

bronze

32 ½ by 56 by 11 in.

82.6 by 142.2 by 27.9 cm.

Conceived in 1969 and cast in 1980, this work is artist's proof 2 from an edition of 9 plus 3 artist's proofs. 

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above in December 1993 by the present owner
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., In Honor of de Kooning, December 1983 - January 1984, p. 21 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Templon, de Kooning, June - July 1984 (another example exhibited)
Dusseldorf, Galerie Hans Strelow, de Kooning: Bilder, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, September - October 1984 
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, May - June 1984, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Inc., Sculpture, July - September 1984 (another example exhibited)
Milan, Studio Marconi, de Kooning: dipinti, disegni, sculture, March - April 1985, p. 57, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Lincoln, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Kansas City Art Institute and Des Moines Art Center, Contemporary Bronze, Six in the Figurative Tradition: Willem de Kooning, Stephen DeStaebler, Robert Graham, Manuel Neri, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, November 1985 - June 1986, p. 11, illustrated in color
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Summer 1995, June - August 1995 (another example exhibited)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery and New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, October - December 1998, p. 34, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Sculptures, April - July 2002 (another example exhibited)
Soeul, Gallery Seomi, Willem de Kooning: 1967 - 1997, August - September 2002 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tot Zo Ver, April - December 2003 (another example exhibited)
New York, Pace Gallery, Willem de Kooning: The Figure, Movement and Gesture, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, April - July 2011 (another example exhibited) 
New York, Skarstedt Gallery, Approaching the Figure, January - February 2018 (another example exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 20 Years of Art Collecting, 1984, no. 435, p. 230, illustrated
"1993 Review of Public Art," Art in America 1994-1995 Guide, August 1994, p. 33, illustrated
M. Palumbo, "Go Figure," Boston Herald, 7 August 1996
M. Palumbo, "MFA Bronze Sculpture: Figure as a Landmark," Boston Herald, 8 August 1996, illustrated
Grace Glueck, "Early de Kooning Nudes: Lesson in Overscale," The New York Times, 14 June 1996, p. C28, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May - June 1996, no. 32, p. 61, p. 64, illustrated and p. 61, illustrated (in the artist's studio)
R. D. Friedman, "The Making of Matthew Marks," Manhattan File, vol. 2, no. 22, 1996, p. 42 illustrated
Edvard Lieber, Willem de Kooning: Reflections in the Studio, New York, 2000, p. 91, illustrated
"Save the Children: David N Pincus Travels the World taking an Ebullient Spirit and Generous Heart to the Youngest in Need," Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 June 2009, illustrated
Jane Kinsman, Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, Canberra, 2015, p. 75
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 82-83, 84 and 220, illustrated in color
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 100, illustrated in color
Christian Bournay, Paroles d'Artiste: Willem de Kooning, Paris, 2022, p. 49, illustrated in color