Lot 43
43
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 left)
graphite and oil on paper
9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Provenance
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
G. Drudi, Willem de Kooning, Milan, 1972, pp. 34 and 60, no. 60 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Tate Gallery; New York, Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning, September 1968-September 1969, no. 117.
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Willem de Kooning 1941-1959, October-November 1974, no. 8 (illustrated).
Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Surrealität-Bildrealität, 1924-1974: In den unzähligen Bildern des Lebens…, December 1974-April 1975, pp. 98-99, no. 158 (illustrated).
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery and Zürich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Willem de Kooning: Recent Paintings, June-October 1976.
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format, Objects: Duchamp to Heizer, February-March 1977.
New York, School of the Visual Arts, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, November-December 1977.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Eduardo Chillida/Willem de Kooning, October 1979-January 1980, pp. 107 and 169, no. 77 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay


"De Kooning's contribution to drawing is as far-reaching as it has been to painting... His drawings and paintings are extremely close to each other in many respects. In fact, the drawings are often the starting point for the paintings. Often brutal, sometimes lyrical, the drawings are replete with the same frenzied brushstrokes of the paintings. In addition, de Kooning's preference for relatively small scale relates the size of the paintings to the drawings and makes the connections between them very apparent."
— (D. Waldman, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978, p. 18.)

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