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Drawn Together: The Collection of Marcia and Stanley Gumberg Featuring Modern Masterworks on Paper

Willem de Kooning

Study for Stenographer

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Drawn Together: The Collection of Marcia and Stanley Gumberg Featuring Modern Masterworks on Paper

Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997

Study for Stenographer


signed de Kooning (lower right); signed de Kooning (upper right)

oil, wash and graphite on paperboard 

25 by 24 in.

63.5 by 61 cm.

Executed circa 1948.

The New Gallery, New York
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1993, lot 2
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, New York 1986, no. 201, illustrated
Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Willem de Kooning, 1961, illustrated in color on the cover
New York, Museum of Modern Art, De Kooning: A Retrospective, 2011-2012, no. 47, p. 156, illustrated in color