WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Lot 232
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Lot 232 | WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Composition III

signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)

oil on paper mounted on Masonite

18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (47.6 x 55.2 cm.)

Painted in 1958.





Provenance

The New Gallery, New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Dr. and Mrs. Hans Klienschmidt, Göttingen

Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills

Elizabeth Heller, San Francisco, 1961

Private collection, New York

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2010, lot 127

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

P. G. Pavia, ed., It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art, no. 2, Autumn 1958, pl. 3 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Willem de Kooning, April 1961, n.p. (illustrated).

San Francisco Museum of Art, New Collectors, May 1964.



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