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
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Property from the Robert and Nettie Benenson Foundation
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled
Details
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on newsprint
22 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. (57.5 x 36.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1970s.
Untitled
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on newsprint
22 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. (57.5 x 36.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1970s.
Provenance
The Estate of Edward Benenson, New York
Gift of the above to the present owner
Gift of the above to the present owner
Brought to you by
Emily Kaplan
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