Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from an Important East Coast Collection
Head #3
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important East Coast Collection
Willem de Kooning
1904 - 1997
Head #3
incised with artist's signature and numbered de Kooning 12/12 (on the reverse)
bronze
19 by 11 1/2 by 11 5/8 in.
48.3 by 29.2 by 29.5 cm.
Executed in 1973; this example number 12 from an edition of 12 plus 3 artist's proofs.
Jane Bell, "Willem de Kooning’s New Work," Arts Magazine, p. 79, November 1975, illustrated
Peter Frank, The Small Scale in Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1975, no. 27, illustrated
Ellen Schwartz, "Chillida Silent Music, de Kooning Eloquent and Ambivalent," Art News, March 1980, p. 68, illustrated
Harry Gaugh, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1983, no. 90, p. 101, illustrated
H. P., "A Delight in a Different Direction," Times, 17 November 1984, illustrated
Joop M. Joosten, Twenty Years of Collecting, Amsterdam, 1984, no. 441, p. 231, illustrated
Phillipe Sollers, De Kooning Vite II (Euvres), Paris, 1988, no. 79, illustrated
"Continuing Education & Summer Session 1996," School Bulletin, University of New Hampshire, 1996 illustrated in color (inside cover)
Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, 1996, p. 57 (another example illustrated)
Judith Zilczer, "Artist and Patron: The Formation of the Hirshhorn Museum Willem de Kooning Collection," Journal of the History of Collection, vol. 8, 1996, no. 1, fig. 12, p. 124, illustrated
B. Jansen, "Tot So Vier/ Up to Now: The Imaginary Museum of Rudi Fuchs," Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Bulletin, 2003, p. 9, illustrated
H. Sawyer, "In Balance," New York Spaces, October 2009, p. 95 illus.
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, 2011, no. 1, p. 404, illustrated
Rosallind Krauss, Willem de Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez la Femme, Chicago, 2015, no. 71, p. 142, illustrated