Willem de Kooning

Xavier Fourcade, New York

Private Collection, Switzerland 

Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach 

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing his Sculpture and New Paintings, 1972, no. 47, n.p., illustration of another cast; illustration of another cast (with the artist’s studio assistant at the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island City, August 1972); illustration of another cast (titled Floating Figure)

Robert Hughes, “Slap and Twist,” Time, 23 October 1972, p. 71, illustration in color of another cast (titled Floating Figure)

Exh. Cat., Detroit, The Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawing, Sculpture, 1973, no. 21, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Caracas, Museum of Fine Arts (and traveling), Four Contemporary Masters, 1973, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and traveling), de Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures, 1974, no. 142, fig. 65, illustration of another cast

Harold Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1974, pl. 204, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery (and traveling), Willem de Kooning, 1975, no. 38, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1967-75, 1975, no. 22, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Geneva, Cabinet des estampes, Museé d'art et d'histoire (and traveling), Willem de Kooning: Sculptures, Lithographies, Peintures, 1977, no. Sc 16, p. 6, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery (and traveling), The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs, 1977, no. 16, p. 53, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (and traveling), Willem de Kooning: Beelden en Litho's, 1976, no. B16, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, 1978, no. 91, p. 122, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Cedar Falls, The Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa (and traveling), De Kooning 1969-78, 1978, no. 32, p. 43, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, 1979, no. 119, p. 136, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, 1981, no. 70, p. 30, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, 1983, no. 15, p. 20; pp. 62-63, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (and traveling), Willem de Kooning: Het Noordatlantisch licht / The North Atlantic Light, 1960-1983, 1983, no. 65, p. 106, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Willem de Kooning Retrospective Exhibition, 1983, p. 242; no. 271, p. 256, illustration of another cast

Harry Gaugh, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1983, fig. 89, p. 100, illustration of another cast

Joop M Joosten, ed., 20 years of collecting: Acquisitions Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1963-1984, Amsterdam, 1984, no. 440, p. 231, illustration of another cast

John Russell, “Art View; De Kooning’s Freedom Came Step by Exuberant Step,” The New York Times, 5 February 1984, section 2, p. 29, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, Vol. I, 1984, pp. 58-59, illustration of another cast

Philippe Sollers, De Kooning, Vite II—Oeuvres, Turin, 1988, no. 76, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (and traveling), Willem de Kooning: Paintings, 1994, fig. 5, p. 178, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Waddington Galleries, Of The Human Form, 1995, pl. 6, p. 14, illustration in color of another cast; p. 61

Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, 1996, no. 15, p. 55, illustration of another cast

Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1997, no. 86, p. 101, illustration in color of another cast; p. 128

Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, 1998, p. 53, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey Collection, 2001, pp. 52-53, illustration in color of another cast (titled Floating Figure)

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, de Kooning: An American Master, New York, 2004, p. 547

Barbara Hess, Willem de Kooning (1904-1997): Content as a Glimpse, Cologne, 2007, pp. 64-65, illustration in color of another cast; p. 67

Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: Works, writings and interviews, Barcelona, 2007, p. 94

Exh. Cat., New York, The Pace Gallery, Willem de Kooning, The Figure: Movement and Gesture, 2011, no. 25, n.p., illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, 2011, pp. 397-98, illustration of another cast (in installation in New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing his Sculpture and New Paintings, 1972); fig. 9, p. 412, illustration in color of another cast; pl. 162, p. 414, illustration in color of another cast

Holland Cotter, “Art Review: Unfurling a Life of Creative Exuberance,” The New York Times, 15 September 2011, illustration in color of another cast (installed in New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, 2011) (online)

Judith Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of de Kooning, London, 2014, no. 234, p. 197; p. 204, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Mnuchin Gallery, De Kooning: Five Decades, 2019, p. 90, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Willem de Kooning and Italy, 2024, p. 74; fig. 7, p. 85, illustration of another cast (with the artist’s studio assistant at the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island City, August 1972); pl. 35, pp. 154-55, illustration in color of another cast; p. 243, illustration of another cast (in installation in New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing his Sculpture and New Paintings, 1972)

Jackie Wullschläger, “Willem de Kooning and Italy, Accademia, Venice—review: a brilliant, bacchanalian show,” Financial Times, 27 April 2024, illustration in color of another cast (online)

Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Willem de Kooning, 1995, no. 8, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, C&M Arts, American Works: 1945-1975, 1997, no. 9, n.p., illustrated in color