Willem De Kooning

Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Tony Baer, Boston
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Essex County, New Jersey, National Council of Jewish Women, American Art At Mid Century, 1963
New York, James Goodman Gallery, "Woman" Drawings by Willem de Kooning, January 1964
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective Drawings 1936-1963, February 1964, n.p., illustrated
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Contemporary American Figure Painting Group Show, May 1964
Cambridge, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April - June 1965

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear along the edges and at the corners of the sheet and scattered soft creases to the sheet. There is very pale time staining along the extreme edges of the sheet, not visible when framed. Framed under glass.
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