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Auction archive: Lot number 149

WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Post-War to Present
29 Sep 2023
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$17,640
Auction archive: Lot number 149

WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)

Post-War to Present
29 Sep 2023
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$17,640
Beschreibung:

Details
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Untitled (Massacre Scene)
signed and dated 'de Kooning 41' (lower right)
graphite on paper
11 ¾ x 15 7/8 in. (29.8 x 40.3 cm.)
Executed in 1941.
Provenance
Collection of Mr. Daniel Brustlein and Mrs. Janice Biala Brustlein, Paris and New York, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1940
By descent from the above to the present owner, 2000
Literature
T. B. Hess, Willem de Kooning Drawings, Greenwich, 1972, pp. 19-20 and 67, no. 4 (illustrated).
S. Yard, Willem de Kooning The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, 1927-1952, New York and London, 1986, n.p., no. 54 (illustrated).
J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning London, 2014, p. 53 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective: Drawings 1936-1963, February 1964, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, The Artist's Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings, 1937 to 1954, January-March 2002, n.p., no. 8 (illustrated).

Auction archive: Lot number 149
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2023
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

Details
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Untitled (Massacre Scene)
signed and dated 'de Kooning 41' (lower right)
graphite on paper
11 ¾ x 15 7/8 in. (29.8 x 40.3 cm.)
Executed in 1941.
Provenance
Collection of Mr. Daniel Brustlein and Mrs. Janice Biala Brustlein, Paris and New York, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1940
By descent from the above to the present owner, 2000
Literature
T. B. Hess, Willem de Kooning Drawings, Greenwich, 1972, pp. 19-20 and 67, no. 4 (illustrated).
S. Yard, Willem de Kooning The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, 1927-1952, New York and London, 1986, n.p., no. 54 (illustrated).
J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning London, 2014, p. 53 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective: Drawings 1936-1963, February 1964, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, The Artist's Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings, 1937 to 1954, January-March 2002, n.p., no. 8 (illustrated).

Auction archive: Lot number 149
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2023
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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