Lot 187
  • 187

WILLEM DE KOONING | The Women

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Willem de Kooning
  • The Women
  • signed
  • oil on newsprint mounted to canvas
  • 21 3/4 by 27 in. 55.2 by 68.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1966.

Provenance

Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Chicago
Chrisite's, New York, 23 May 1978, Lot 51
Ronnie Roland, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 1980

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The newspaper has yellowed slightly over time. There is evidence of oil staining surrounding various passages of paint from where the oil has seeped into the newspaper, a natural migration process for this media. Under close inspection, there is a stable 2 in. hairline crack located 8 inches from the top edge and 6 inches from the right. To the right of the aforementioned passage, there is another vertical hairline crack approximately 6 in. in length beginning 3 in. from the left edge in the green paint and continuing down into the light green passage. Under Ultraviolet light, there are no signs of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

“The dramatic black line, so essential to the women of the late 1940s and 1950s, is gone; in its place glorious, luminous white infuses these paintings with a light-filled pastoral atmosphere.”
Diane Waldman quoted in Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, 1961, p. 352