Lot 37
Lot 37
An Enquiring Eye: Property from a Distinguished Private Collector
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Composition

Price Realised USD 44,100
Estimate
USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Composition

Price Realised USD 44,100
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Price Realised USD 44,100
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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Composition
signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
oil and graphite on paper
714 x 1158 in. (18.4 x 29.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1938.
Provenance
The New Gallery, New York
B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 24 September 1981, lot 587
The Purchase Gallery Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
S. Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York--1927-1952, New York, 1980, p.7, no. 42.
Exhibited
Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Willem de Kooning, April 1961 (illustrated).
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