Lot 19
19
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

(i)-(iii) Untitled

Details
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
(i)-(iii) Untitled
each: signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
each: charcoal on paper
each: 11 x 8 3/8in. (28 x 21.3cm.)
(3)Executed in 1965-1970
Provenance
The Estate of the artist.
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Sprüth Magers Lee, London.
Gagosian Gallery, London.
Simon Lee Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

‘I am always in the picture somewhere. The amount of space I use I am always in, I seem to move around in it. And there seems to be a time when I lose sight of what I wanted to do, and then I am out of it. If the picture has a countenance I keep it. If it hasn’t, I throw it away’ (W. de Kooning, quoted in R. Motherwell, A. Reinhardt and B. Karpel (eds.), Modern Artists in America, First Series, 1952, p. 12).

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