Seated Woman

Price realised USD 625,000

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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Seated Woman

Price realised USD 625,000

Closed: 12 Nov 2021

Price realised USD 625,000

Closed: 12 Nov 2021

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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Seated Woman
incised with the artist’s signature, number, date and foundry mark 'de Kooning SC. 9⁄9 © 1969⁄80' (lower edge of the reverse)
bronze
26 3⁄4 x 39 x 21 in. (68 x 99.1 x 53.3 cm.)
Executed in 1969-1980. This work is number nine from an edition of nine plus two artist's proofs.

Xavier Fourcade Inc. New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1980s

S. Neysters, “Willem de Kooning by Strelow,” Raheinsche Post, 20 September 1984 (another example illustrated).
D. Waldman, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1988, p. 121, no. 92 (another example illustrated).
J. Hobhouse, The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century, New York, 1988, p. 258, no. 232 (another example illustrated).
Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, exh. cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, 1996, p. 62, no. 28 (another example illustrated).
H. Cotter, "Unfurling a Life of Creative Exuberance," The New York Times, 16 September 2011, C28 (another example illustrated).
Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012, p. 72, no. 22 (another example illustrated).

New York, Xavier Fourcade, Twentieth Century Paintings and Sculpture: Brancusi to Lichtenstein, February-April 1978 (another example exhibited).
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Large Scale, Small Scale, April-June 1978 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Casting: A Survey of Cast Metal Sculpture, July-August 1982 (another example exhibited).
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture 1969-1981, May-June 1983 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September-October 1983, pp. 80-81, no. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, May-June 1984, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Willem de Kooning: Recent Works, March 1984, p. 9, no. 31 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Galerie Templon, de Kooning, June-July 1984 (another example exhibited).
Katonah Gallery, Transformations, August-October 1984, no. 1 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the back cover).
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Sculpture, July-September 1984 (another example exhibited).
Dusseldorf, Galerie Hans Strelow, de Kooning: Bilder, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, September-October 1984 (another example exhibited).
Goslar, Das Monchehaus-Museum, Exhibition on the occasion of the presentation of the Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning, September-October 1984 (another example exhibited).
Milan, Studio Marconi, de Kooning: dipinti, disegni, sculture, March-April 1985, p. 57 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Lincoln, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Des Moines Arts Center, Contemporary Bronze: Six in the Figural Tradition: Willem de Kooning, Stephen deStaebler, Robert Graham, Manuel Neri, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, November 1985-June 1986, p. 10 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Pace Gallery, Sculpture by Painters, June-September 1989 (another example exhibited).
University Park, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, Collecting with a Passion: The David and Gerry Pincus Collection, August-January 1994, pp. 3 and 10 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May-June 1996, p. 62, no. 28 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, October-December 1998, n.p., pl. 57 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Acquavella Galleries, 20th Century Sculpture, April-May 2003, n.p., pl. 37 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011-January 2012, p. 417, no. 165 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum, Willem de Kooning from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection, October 2014-January 2015, p. 113, no. 35 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Skarstedt Gallery, De Kooning Sculptures, 1972-1974, November-December 2015.

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Lot Essay

You can work and work on a painting... but you can’t start over again with the canvas like it was before you put that first stroke down. And sometimes, in the end, it’s no good, no matter what you do. But with clay, I cover it with a wet cloth and come back down to it the next morning and if I don’t like what I did, or changed my mind, I can break it down and start over. It’s always fresh.
– Willem de Kooning

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