WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

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$ 3 000 000
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ID 949339
Lot 55 | WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
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.





Provenance

Estate of Willem de Kooning, New York

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Private collection, Australia

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009



Literature

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).



Exhibited

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).
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