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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 29, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Curated | 69 | $****** - ****** | UNTITLED (STUDY FOR WORLD'S FAIR MURAL "MEDICINE") |
Works on Paper
25.1 x 29.8 cm (9.87 x 11.75 in)
graphite on paper
Acquired by the present owner in 1974
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, De Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures, March 1974 - June 1975, cat. no. 1, fig. 3, n.p., illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie Der Kunste; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures, December 1983 - September 1984, cat. no. 4, p. 28, illustrated
New York, Queens Museum of Art, Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, March - July 1997
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Drawings: 1920's - 1970's, October 2007 - January 2008, p. 11, illustrated in color
Harold Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1973, cat. no. 7, illustrated (published as Untitled)
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York 1927-1952, New York, 1980, cat. no. 27, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Miró in America, April - May 1982, fig. 30, n.p., illustrated
Philippe Sollers, De Kooning, Vite I, Paris, 1988, cat. no. 3, p. 79
Philippe Sollers, De Kooning, Vite II (Oeuvres), Paris, 1988, cat. no. 3, n.p., illustrated
Diane Waldman, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1988, fig. 13, p. 25, illustrated
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1997, cat. no. 5, p. 14, illustrated
Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: Works, Writings and Interviews, Barcelona, 2007, p. 16, illustrated in color
William Agee, Irving Sandler, Karen Wilkin, American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942, New Haven, 2012, cat. no. 20, p. 87, illustrated in color
Judith Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, London, 2014, cat. no. 11, p. 21, illustrated in color
