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Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Willem de Kooning

Untitled #4

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997


Untitled #4

signed (upper right)

pastel and charcoal on paper mounted on paper

23 ¼ by 21 ½ in.

59 by 54.6 cm.

Executed in 1956-58.

The artist

Fourcade, Droll, Inc., New York (acquired by 1974)

Pace Gallery, New York

Mnuchin Foundation, New York (acquired by 1983)

C&M Arts, New York

Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Acquired from the above in December 2009 by the present owner

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Willem de Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures, March 1974 - April 1975, no. 88, fig. 46, n.p., illustrated in color

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, January - February 1976

Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May - July 1981

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, October 1979 - January 1980, no, 91, p. 120, illustrated

East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May - July 1981

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, no. 78, p. 80, illustrated in color

Seattle Art Museum, Willem de Kooning in Seattle: Selected Works from 1943-1985 in Public and Private Collections, November 1995 - March 1996

Los Angeles, L&M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Figure & Light, November 2010 - January 2011, no. 16, pp. 46-47, illustrated in color

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, De Kooning: Five Decades, April - June 2019

New York, Shelter Island Historical Society, Once on this Island, June - September 2022

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Spring Fever, May - June 2024

Thomas B. Hess, Willem de Kooning Drawings, Greenwich 1972, no. 82, pp. 198-99, illustrated

Jonathan Goodman, “Willem de Kooning at Mnuchin Gallery,” Tussle Magazine, 2018, illustrated in color (in installation, New York, Mnuchin Gallery, 2018)