Lot 21
  • 21

Willem De Kooning

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Willem de Kooning
  • Untitled (Rome Series)
  • signed and dated 59
  • oil and collage on paper mounted to canvas
  • 27 5/8 x 39 3/8 in. 70.3 x 100 cm.

Provenance

Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
Sotheby's, New York, November 19, 1982, lot 55
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, de Kooning/Cornell, February - March 1965

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Liquifying Cubism, 1994, p. VII, illustrated (installation photograph at the 1965 Allan Stone Gallery exhibition)

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet has slightly darkened overall as evidenced by the slightly lighter tone at some of the extreme edges which are covered by the liner of the frame. The extreme edges also show wear from contact between the paper and the liner. Overall the black pigment exhibits scattered light linear abrasions primarily along the right edge above the center, in the lower left corner and in the bottom of the upper left quadrant. The pigment exhibits variable densities and color tone, some linear and others circular, which may have become more evident with age and is typical of a work of this medium and age. The canvas is on a keyed stretcher and it is framed in an antiqued dark wood frame with gilded decorations on the inner and outer edges and a linen liner, behind Plexiglas.
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