
Auction Closed
October 2, 08:56 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
WILLEM DE KOONING
1904 - 1997
UNTITLED #4
inscribed with the artist's initials and number 6/4
bronze
4 by 8¼ by 6¼ in. 10 by 21 by 15.5 cm.
Executed in 1969, this work is number 4 from an edition of 6.
SHELL
The Estate of Xavier Fourcade, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1987, Lot 13
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner CHECK
Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August-September 1972
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October-November 1972, n.p., no. 35 (another cast exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, de Kooning: Drawings/Sculpture, March 1974-June 1974, n.p., no. 130 (another cast exhibited).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt; Geneva, Cabinet des Estampes, Musee d'art et d'histoire and Grenoble, Musée des Peintures et des Sculptures, Willem de Kooning: Beelden en lithis, March 1976-September 1977
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May-June 1976.
Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977-January 1978, n.p., no. 4 (another cast exhibited)
Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning/Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979-January 1980
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture, 1969-1981, May-June 1983
Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September-October 1983, pp. 40-41 and 122, no. 4 illustrated (another cast exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983-September 1984, p. 248, no. 260, illustrated (another cast exhibited)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, May-June 1996, p.52, no. 4, illustrated (another cast exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011-January 2012, p. 407, no. 151, illustrated in color (another cast exhibited)
Diane Waldman, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, New York 1978, p. 114 (another cast illustrated)