Willem De Kooning

Private Collection
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris
Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London
Heiner Bastian Fine Art, Berlin
Acquired by the present owner from the above

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing his Sculpture and New Paintings, October - November 1972, cat. no. 10, illustrated (titled Man)
Paris, Galerie des Arts, de Kooning, October - November 1975, illustrated in color
Berlin, Heiner Bastian Fine Art, A Few Remarkable Paintings by Picasso and de Kooning, 1990, cat. no. 7, p. 21, illustrated

This work is in excellent condition overall. There are tack holes from the time of execution at the top corners of the paper sheet (2 located in the upper right corner and 1 in the upper left corner). The adhesive from the mounting process is slightly visible as a light, brownish opaque substance at various locations around the extreme edges of the paper, most notably at the corner edges and through the tack holes. Under Ultraviolet light there are no apparent restorations. This work is framed in a blonde wood box frame behind plexiglas.
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