WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Lot 72
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 3 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1336273
Lot 72 | WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Abstraction
signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
oil, enamel, charcoal and paper collage on paper mounted on board
24 ¼ x 36 1/8 in. (61.6 x 91.8 cm.)
Executed in 1948.




Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection, Chicago
Gerald Elliot, Chicago
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 18 November 1992, lot 11
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004



Literature

S. Metz, Willem de Kooning: Black and White in Abstract Expressionism: 'Black and White Paintings' (circa 1945-50) and 'Rome Series' (1959/60), Giessen, 2016, p. 12 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Willem de Kooning: 1941-1959, October-November 1974, n.p., no. 5 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The New York School: Four Decades, Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans, July-August 1982.
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings from the Forties and Fifties, May 2004.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: a Retrospective, September 2011-January 2012, pp. 121, 124, 163-164, 168 and 171, pl. 51 (illustrated).
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