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Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Willem de Kooning

Five Women

Session begins in

May 15, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997


Five Women

signed (lower right)

graphite on paper

17 ½ by 28 ½ in.

44.5 by 72.4 cm.

Executed in 1952.

Wayne Anderson, Boston

Christie's New York, 6 May 1987, lot 119

Private Collection, Geneva

Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis

Christie's New York, 2 May 1989, lot 28

Private Collection, New York

Fayt Gallery, Belgium

Countess Viviane de Witt, Paris (acquired from the above in 1994)

Sotheby's Paris, 5 June 2013, lot 11 (consigned by the above)

Herbert Kasper, New York (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 12 November 2021, lot 235 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January - August 1976, no. 105, p. 69

Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979 - January 1980, no. 84, p. 114, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning - Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983 - September 1984, p. 58, no. 53, illustrated

New York, Pace Gallery, De Kooning / Dubuffet: The Women, November 1990 - January 1991, no. 15, illustrated