Untitled No. 12

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Untitled No. 12

Price realised USD 43,750

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled No. 12
signed with initials and numbered 'W de K. 4/6' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
6½ x 9 x 4¾ in. (16.5 x 22.9 x 12.1 cm.)
Executed in 1969. This work is number four from an edition of six.

Collection of the artist
Thomas B. Hess, New York
Estate of Thomas B. Hess, New York
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1985, lot 16
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August-September 1972 (another example exhibited)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing his Sculpture and New Painting, October-November 1972, no. 41 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, 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, de Kooning: Drawing/Sculpture, March 1974-June 1975, cat. 138 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt; Geneva, Cabinet des Estampes, Musee d'art et d'histoire and Grenoble, Muse des Peintures et des Sculptures, Willem de Kooning: Beelden en lithis, March 1976-September 1977, B12 (another example exhibited and illustrated; Amsterdam); SC12, p. 3 (another example exhibited and illustrated; Geneva); P12 (another example exhibited and illustrated; Ganobule).
Los Angeles, James Corcoran gallery, Willem De Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May-June 1976 (another example exhibited).
Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery and London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs, October 1977-January 1978 (another example exhibited).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, February-April 1978, p. 117, no. 86 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979-January 1980, cat. 116 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981, p. 21, cat. 66 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture, May-June 1983 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September-October 1983, p. 56, no. 12 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Academie der Kunst and Paris, Mus©e National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawing-Paining-Sculpture, December 1983-August 1984, p. 253, no. 268 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Katonah Gallery, Transformation, August-October 1984 (another example exhibited).
Goslar, Mönchehaus Museum, Exhibition on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning, September- October 1984 (another example exhibited).
Houston, Museum of Fine Art, Texas Collects: Willem de Kooning & His Contemporaries, March-May 1995 (another example exhibited).
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May-June 1996, p. 54, no. 12 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
P. Sollers, De Kooning, Vite II (Euvres), Paris, 1988, no. 66 (another example illustrated).
B. Hess, Willem de Kooning, Cologne, 2004, p. 66 (another example illustrated in color).
J. Elderfield, et al, de Kooning: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2011, p. 404, fig. 2 (another example illustrated in color).

Please note the work is executed in 1969 and is number four from an edition of six.

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