Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Untitled (Landscape)

Details

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled (Landscape)
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on newsprint laid down on canvas
23 x 29 1/8 in. (58.4 x 73.9 cm.)
Painted in 1976.

Provenance

Private collection, acquired directly from the artist
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 May 1977, lot 461
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Lot Essay

“I'm not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting. I paint this way because I can keep putting more and more things in it: drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space.” – Willem de Kooning

Untitled (Landscape)

Lot Essay

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