Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Property from the Collection of Courtney Sale Ross
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Two Women

Details
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Two Women
signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
graphite on paperboard
14 ½ x 16 1/8 in. (36.8 x 41 cm.)
Drawn circa 1951-1952.
Provenance
The artist
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
G. Drudi, Willem de Kooning, Milan, 1972, no. 163 (illustrated).
H. Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1973, no. 98 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 20th Century Master Drawings, November 1963-January 1964.
Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum; London, The Tate Gallery; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, September 1968-September 1969, no. 121 (New York) and no. 108 (Amsterdam; illustrated).
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Willem de Kooning, October-November 1974, no. 14 (illustrated).
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, February 1975-February 1976, no. 24 (illustrated).
London, Gimpel Fils and Zürich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Willem de Kooning: Recent Paintings, June-October 1976.
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format, Object: Duchamp to Heizer, February-March 1977.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Eduardo Chillida/Willem de Kooning, October 1979-January 1980, p. 112, no. 82 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983-February 1984, p. 50, no. 42 (illustrated).

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