Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Untitled
Auction Closed
October 9, 06:50 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Willem de Kooning
1904 - 1997
Untitled
dated ’87 (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
195.6 by 223.5 cm. 77 by 88 in.
Executed in 1987.
Estate of the Artist
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Seoul (acquired from the above in 2003)
Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 2005, lot 67 (consigned by the above)
Gagosian Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above in 2012)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Andrew Decker, "The de Kooning Landscape," ARTnews, no. 6, 1997, p. 43, illustrated in colour
Robert Storr, "A Painter's Testament: de Kooning in the '80s," MoMA Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997, p. 17, illustrated in colour
Amei Wallach, "de Kooning's Last Dance," Newsday, 29 January 1997, p. B8, illustrated in colour
Edward J. Sozanski, "de Kooning's Late Art Startlingly Impressive," Philadelphia Enquirer, 2 February 1997, n.p., illustrated
Maurice Tourigny, “La Peinture Triomphante de Willem de Kooning,” Le Devoir, 23 February 1997, n.p., illustrated
Kenneth Baker, "Art World Bustles in Big Apple Backdrop," San Francisco Chronicle, 25 March 1997, p. E3, illustrated
Edvard Lieber, Willem de Kooning: Reflections in the Studio, New York 2000, p. 92, illustrated in colour (in the artist's studio)
Alexi Worth, "Willem de Kooning: Matthew Marks Gallery," Artforum, vol. XL, no. 5, January 2002, p. 142, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Skarstedt Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Late Paintings, October - December 2017, fig. 3, p. 13, illustrated in colour
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, 1980s, January - April 1997 (traveling exhibition organised by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, exhibited in New York only)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: 1987, November - December 2001, pl. 9, n.p., illustrated in colour
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Summer Exhibition of Gallery Artists, August - September 2008