Woman

Details

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Woman
signed and dated 'de Kooning '51' (lower right)
graphite, charcoal, pastel and oil on paper
21½ x 16½ in. (54.6 x 41.9 cm.)
Executed in 1951.

Provenance

Ruth and Paul Tishman, New York
James P. David and Virginia Harrison, New York
Marc Blondeau, S.A., Paris
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2001, lot 50
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

G. Drudi, Willem de Kooning, Milan, 1972, no. 74 (illustrated).
T.B. Hess, Willem de Kooning Drawings, London, 1972, pp. 140-141, no. 51 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, March-September 1969, p. 86, no. 120 (illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottowa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculptures, March 1974-June 1975, no. 55, pl. 42 (illustrated in color).
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981, no. 41.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künst and Paris, Musée National d'Art Modern, Center Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawings-Paintings-Sculpture, December 1983-September 1984, p. 46, no. 38 (illustrated in color).
New York, Pace Gallery, Willem de Kooning-Jean Dubuffet: The Women, November 1990-January 1991, pl. 10 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, February 2002-January 2003 (illustrated in color).

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