Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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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