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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2023 | Christie's | New York | A Century of Art: The Gerald Fineberg Collection Part I | 55C | $****** - ****** | Two Figures |
paintings
91.4 x 121.9 cm (36 x 48 in)
oil and newspaper on canvas
Estate of Willem de Kooning, New York
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private collection, Australia
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May-June 1996.
Paddington, Martin Browne Fine Art, A Selection of Post-War International Paintings and Sculpture , July-August 1997 (illustrated).
E. Leiser, Willem de Kooning and the Unexpected , Zurich, 1979 (video).
K. Wilkie, "Willem de Kooning: Portrait of a Modern Master", Holland Herald , 1982, p. 22 (studio view illustrated).
Abstract Expressionism - A World Elsewhere , exh. cat., New York, Haunch of Venison, 2008, p. 131 (studio view illustrated).
de Kooning: a Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2011, p. 440 (studio view illustrated).
Willem de Kooning, The Figure: Movement and Gesture; Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings , exh. cat., New York, Pace Gallery, April-July 2011, n.p. (studio view illustrated).
J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning , London, 2014, pp. 222 and 237 (studio view illustrated).
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Two Figures
oil and newspaper on canvas
36 x 48 in. (76.2 x 121.9 cm.)
Pained in 1968-1972.
