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Willem de Kooning
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description
- Willem de Kooning
- Abstraction
- signed
- pastel, wax crayon and graphite on paper
- 8 1/2 by 11 in. 21.6 by 27.9 cm.
- Executed circa 1945.
Provenance
Collection of the artist
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculptures, March 1974 - June 1975, fig. 38, cat. no. 19, illustrated
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May - June 1976
Düsseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Kunsthaus Zurich; Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, American Art Between the Two World Wars, June - December 1976
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format Objects: From Duchamp to Heizer, February - March 1977
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Drawings: 1920s - 1970s, October 2007 - January 2008, p. 31, illustrated in color
New York, Allan Stone Projects, Master Drawings, January 2016
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May - June 1976
Düsseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Kunsthaus Zurich; Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, American Art Between the Two World Wars, June - December 1976
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format Objects: From Duchamp to Heizer, February - March 1977
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Drawings: 1920s - 1970s, October 2007 - January 2008, p. 31, illustrated in color
New York, Allan Stone Projects, Master Drawings, January 2016
Literature
Robert Hughes, "The Painter as Draftsman," Time, 17 June 1974
Judith Goldman, "Art: Modern Master Drawings," Architectural Digest, September 1977, p. 117, illustrated
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York: 1927-1952, New York 1980, no. 165, illustrated
Judith Goldman, "Art: Modern Master Drawings," Architectural Digest, September 1977, p. 117, illustrated
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York: 1927-1952, New York 1980, no. 165, illustrated
Catalogue Note
"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think of inside or outside—or of art in general—as a situation of comfort." Willem de Kooning