Lot 3
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Willem De Kooning

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description

  • Willem de Kooning
  • Study for Lisbeth's Painting
  • signed
  • oil on paper mounted on masonite
  • 12 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. 31.8 x 35.9 cm.
  • Painted circa 1958.

Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective Exhibition from Public and Private Collections, April - June 1965, no. 33 (titled Untitled)
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Liquifying Cubism, October 1994 - January 1995, pl. 45, illustrated in color

Literature

Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1997, fig. 56, p. 72, illustrated in color
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: Works, Writings and Interviews, Barcelona, 2007, p. 76, illustrated in color

Condition

This painting is in very good condition. Please contact the Contemporary Art department at 212-606-7254 for a condition report prepared by Terrence Mahon. The work is framed in a silver metal strip frame with a small float.
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