Willem de Kooning

Lee V. Eastman, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Christie's, New York, November 8, 2005, Lot 16
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977 – January 1978, cat. no. 16 (ed. no. unknown)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, October – December 1998, pl. 53, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture and New Paintings, 1972, cat. no. 47, illustrated (another example)
Harold Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1974, pl. 204, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and travelling), De Kooning: drawings/sculptures, 1974, cat. no. 142, pl. 65, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, 1978, cat. no. 91, p. 122, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Cedar Falls, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art (and travelling), De Kooning 1969 – 1978, 1978, cat. no. 32, p. 43, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning, 1979, cat. no. 119, p. 136, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951 – 1981, 1981, cat. no. 70, p. 30, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Cologne, Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, 1983, cat. no. 15, p. 63, illustrated (another example)
Harry Gaugh, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1983, fig. 89, p. 100, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum (and travelling), Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, 1983, cat. no. 65, p.106, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art (and travelling), Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, 1983, cat. no. 271, p. 256, illustrated (another example)
Phillipe Sollers, de Kooning, Vite, Paris, 1988, vol. II, no. 76, p. 82, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, 1994, no. 5, p. 178, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Under Development: Dreaming of the MCA's Collection, 1994, cat. no. 51, p. 15, illustrated (another example)
"Market Results: Contemporary Work", The ArtNewspaper, London, June 1994, p. 39, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., London, Waddington Galleries, Of the Human Form, 1995, pl. 6, p. 14, illustrated in color (another example)
Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, 1996, cat. no. 15, p. 55, illustrated (another example)
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1997, no. 86, p. 101, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat. New York, C&M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculptures 1964 -1973, October – December 2000, pl. 9, illustrated in color on the back cover (another example)
Barbara Hess, De Kooning, Cologne, 2004, p. 65, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown)

This work is in excellent condition overall. There are no apparent condition issues with this work. The sculpture has recently been polished.
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