Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Details

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled #4
inscribed with initials and numbered 'W de K. 6/4' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
4 x 8¼ x 6¼ in. (10 x 21 x 15.5 cm.)
Executed in 1969. This work is number four from an edition of six.

Provenance

The Estate of Xavier Fourcade
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1987, lot 13
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

D. Waldman, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, New York, 1978, p. 114 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August-Septebmer 1972.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October-November 1972, n.p., no. 35 (another cast exhibited).
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/Sculpture, March 1974-June 1974, n.p., no. 130 (another cast exhibited).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt; Geneva, Cabinet des Estampes, Musee d'art et d'histoire and Grenoble, Musée des Peintures et des Sculptures, Willem de Kooning: Beelden en lithis March 1976-September 1977.
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May-June 1976.
Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977-January 1978, n.p., no. 4 (another cast exhibited).
Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning/Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979-January 1980.
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981.
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture, 1969-1981, May-June 1983.
Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September-October 1983, pp. 40-41 and 122, no. 4 (illustrated, another cast exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983-September 1984, p. 248, no. 260 (illustrated, another cast exhibited).
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, May-June 1996, p.52, no. 4 (illustrated, another cast exhibited).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011-January 2012, p. 407, no. 151 (illustrated in color, another cast exhibited).

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Lot Essay

"In de Kooning's hands, sculptural form became as susceptible as a rotated canvas to the vagaries of reorientation. It was like the sphere that the artist imagined he could never completely shape: turning, adjusting, turning, adjusting."

(R. Shiff, Willem de Kooning the Figure: Movement and Gesture, exh. cat., New York, 2011, n.p.)

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