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Property from an Important Private Collection

Willem de Kooning

Untitled III

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May 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000,000 - 35,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Willem de Kooning

(1904 - 1997)


Untitled III

oil on canvas

87 ¾ by 76 ½ in.

222.9 by 194.3 cm.

Executed in 1975. 

The Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust

Private Collection

Acquired from the above in January 2007 by the present owner

New York, Fourcade, Droll, Inc., De Kooning, New Works: Paintings and Sculpture, October - December 1975, no. 3, n.p., illustrated

Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavillion, de Kooning: New Works: Paintings and Sculpture, February - March 1976, no. 3, illustrated

London, Gimpel Fils and Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover, Willem de Kooning: Recent Paintings, June - October 1976, no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, De Kooning: Recent Works, January - February 1977

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art; Ljubljana, Museum of Modern Art; Bucharest, Romanian National Museum of Art; Warsaw, National Museum; Krakow, Branch Post; Helsinki National Museum of Art; Berlin, Amerika Haus; Alicante, Caja de Ahorros; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Oslo, Norwegian National Gallery of Art, Dordrechts Museum, Willem de Kooning, Paintings & Sculpture, October 1977 - September 1979, no. 1, p. 28, illustrated in color (Madrid)

Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, De Kooning: Late Paintings and Drawings, February - March 1980

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings and Sculpture, 1971-1983, November 1984 - January 1985, no. 6, p. 12, illustrated in color and p. 45 (text)

Institut Valencià d'Art Modern and Madrid, Fundación "la Caixa", Willem de Kooning, September 2001 - March 2002, p. 160 (text) and p. 161, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover) (Valencia)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, De Kooning: A Centennial Exhibition, April - June 2004, p. 76 (text) and p. 77, illustrated in color

Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum and Kunsthal Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning, April - July 2005, no. 34, p. 76, illustrated in color (detail), p. 90, illustrated in color and p. 188 (text) (Rotterdam)

Kunstmuseum Basel, De Kooning: Paintings, 1960-1980, September 2005 - January 2006, no. 20, pp. 88-91, 94-95, 108 (text) and p. 109, illustrated in color

Palm Springs Art Museum, Degas to de Kooning: Impressionist and Modern Masters, June - August 2007

Palm Springs Art Museum, Impressionist and Modern Masters: Nature and Light, June - August 2009

Palm Springs Art Museum, Simply Masterful: Picasso and Artists of the Modern Era, June - September 2011

Reno, Nevada Museum of Art, Manet to Maya Lin, June - September 2018

Palm Springs Art Museum, Shaping Vision: Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, June - October 2019

Roberta Smith, "ART REVIEW; De Kooning From Z to A: Meetings and Convergences," The New York Times, 30 April 2004 (text) (online)

"Palm Springs Art Museum, Museum Show Includes Works by Impressionist de Kooning," Desert Sun, 17 June 2007, n.p., illustrated in color