Lot 199
199
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Property from the Collection of Courtney Sale Ross
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Portrait of a Woman

Price realised USD 115,000
Estimate
USD 70,000 – USD 100,000
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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Portrait of a Woman

Price realised USD 115,000
Price realised USD 115,000
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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Portrait of a Woman
signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
graphite on paper
image: 10 ½ x 8 3/8 in. (26.7 x 21.3 cm.)
sheet: 16 ½ x 11 in. (42 x 28 cm.)
Drawn circa 1940.
Provenance
The artist
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
T. Hess, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1959, p. 46, no. 25 (illustrated).
G. Drudi, de Kooning, Milan, 1972, no. 10 (illustrated).
H. Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1973, p. 75, pl. 20 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum; London, The Tate Gallery; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, September 1968-September 1969, p. 21, no. 109 (New York; illustrated), no. 97 (Amsterdam, illustrated).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, La Ricerca Dell Identita, October 1974-January 1975, no. 164 (illustrated).
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston, February-March 1975.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, January-February 1976, p. 6.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Kunsthalle Bremen, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January-August 1976, no. 84.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979-January 1980, no. 68 (illustrated).
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, pl. 3 (illustrated).

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