WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Lot 149
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ID 1031469
Lot 149 | WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Untitled (Massacre Scene)

signed and dated 'de Kooning 41' (lower right)

graphite on paper

11 ¾ x 15 7/8 in. (29.8 x 40.3 cm.)

Executed in 1941.





Provenance

Collection of Mr. Daniel Brustlein and Mrs. Janice Biala Brustlein, Paris and New York, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1940

By descent from the above to the present owner, 2000



Literature

T. B. Hess, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Greenwich, 1972, pp. 19-20 and 67, no. 4 (illustrated).

S. Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, 1927-1952, New York and London, 1986, n.p., no. 54 (illustrated).

J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, London, 2014, p. 53 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective: Drawings 1936-1963, February 1964, n.p. (illustrated).

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, The Artist's Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings, 1937 to 1954, January-March 2002, n.p., no. 8 (illustrated).
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