The Mo Ostin Collection Evening Auction

The Mo Ostin Collection Evening Auction

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Willem De Kooning

Two Figures

Auction Closed

May 16, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Willem De Kooning

1904 - 1997


Two Figures

signed (lower left)

charcoal, colored chalks, gouache, graphite and watercolor on paper

11 ⅜ by 13 ⅛ in. 27.9 by 30.5 cm.

Executed circa 1946-47.


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威廉・德庫寧

1904–1997年

 

《兩個人物》

款識︰藝術家簽名(左下)

炭筆、彩色粉筆、水粉、石墨及水彩紙本

11 ⅜ x 13 ⅛ 英寸;27.9 x 30.5 公分

約1946–47年作

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Joseph Hazen, New York (acquired by 1966)
Christie’s New York, 3 November 1987, Lot 25
Private Collection, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s New York, 8 May 1990, Lot 36 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1997, no. 24, p. 34, illustrated in color
Herve Vanel, "La Roue des la Fortune: la dernier period de Willem de Kooning et sa reception critique," Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, Winter 1997, p. 38, illustrated
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories, New York, 2003, illustrated in color on the cover
Exh. Cat., New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Slipping Glimpses 1920s to 1960s, 2006, pp. 8-9, illustrated in color (in installation, Allan Stone Gallery, 1995)
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: Works, Writings and Interviews, Barcelona, 2007, pp. 32 and 38, illustrated in color
Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, 1966
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gallery 27 Installation, 1990
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Liquefying Cubism, 1994-95, p. 27, illustrated in color
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, 2002, no. 18, n.p., illustrated in color