LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

59.49 in. (151.10 cm.) (height) by 29.61 in. (75.20 cm.) (width) by 23.74 in. (60.30 cm.) (width)

Edition:

AP 1 of 3 aside from ed of 7

Markings:

incised with signature 'de Kooning' and stamped with number 'AP' (on the right foot); incised with date and initials '1972 D.C' (lower center)

Exhibited:

Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, August-September 1972 (another example exhibited).New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October-November 1972, no. 43 (another example exhibited and illustrated).The Detroit Institute of Arts, Art in Space, May-June 1973, fig. 5 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes; Bogota, Museo de Arte Moderno; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Four Contemporary Masters: Bacon, Dubuffet, Giacometti, de Kooning, April-November 1973, no. K10 (another example exhibited and illustrated). Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, De Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures, June 1974-June 1975, no. 141, fig. 63 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Newport, Rhode Island, Monumenta: A Biennial Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture, August-October 1974 (another example exhibited and illustrated). Toronto, Pollock Gallery, De Kooning: Major Paintings and Sculpture, October-November 1974 (another example exhibited). New York, Fourcade, Droll, Inc, De Kooning-New Works: Painting and Sculpture, October-December 1975 (another example exhibited). West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, De Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 1967-1975, December 1975-February 1976, no. 21 (another example exhibited and illustrated). Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Matrix 15: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Willem de Kooning, December 1975-January 1976 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the front cover).Seattle Art Museum, De Kooning: New Paintings and Sculpture, February-March 1976 (another example exhibited).Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg; Gevena, Cabinet des Estampes, Musée d'art et d'histoire and Grenoble, Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Willem de Kooning: Beelden en Litho's, March 1976-September 1977, no. B15 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Amsterdam, Collection d'Art, Willem de Kooning, May-July 1976 (another example exhibited).Huntington, Heckscher Museum, Artists of Suffolk County/Part X: Recorders of History, May-June 1976, p. 16, no. 16 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May-June 1976 (another example exhibited).Greenwich Arts Council, Sculpture 76: An Outdoor Exhibition of Sculpture by Fifteen Living American Artists, June-October 1976 (another example exhibited and illustrated).University Art Museum, University of Texas, De Kooning: Lithographs, Sculpture and Painting, October-November 1976 (another example exhibited).Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, De Kooning: Recent Works, January-February 1977 (another example exhibited).New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Twentieth Century Paintings and Sculpture: Matisse to de Kooning, March-April 1977 (another example exhibited).Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon, Willem de Kooning: Peintres et Sculptures Recentes, September-October 1977 (another example exhibited).Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery and London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977-January 1978, no. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art; Ljubljana, Museum of Modern Art; Bucharest, National Museum of Art; Warsaw, National Museum; Krakow, Branch Post; Helsinki National Museum of Art; Berlin, Amerika Haus; Alicante, Caja de Ahorros; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Oslo, Norwegian National Gallery of Art and Dordrecht Museum, Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture, October 1977-September 1979, p. 34, no. 14 (another example exhibited and illustrated).New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, February-April 1978, p.121, no. 90 (another example exhibited and illustrated).New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Large Scale, Small Scale, April-June 1978 (another example exhibited). Bronx, Wave Hill Sculpture Garden, Figure in the Landscape, May-October 1978, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated). Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Matrix 12 (A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art): Willem de Kooning, August-October 1978 (another example exhibited). Cedar Falls, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa; The St. Louis Art Museum; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center and Akron Art Institute, de Kooning, 1969-78, October 1978-June 1979, p. 42, no. 31 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh International Series: Willem de Kooning, October 1979-January 1980, p. 135, no. 118 (another example exhibited and illustrated). Milwaukee Art Museum; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; Columbus Museum of Art; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery and Austin, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Art in Our Time, October 1980-December 1982 (another example exhibited).East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-81, May-July 1981, p. 21, no. 69 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, 1960-1983, May-October 1983 (another example exhibited).New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture, 1969-1981, May-June 1983 (another example exhibited).Cologne, Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September-October 1983 (another example exhibited).New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Willem de Kooning: Drawings – Paintings – Sculpture, December 1983-September 1984, p. 255, no. 270 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Goslar, Das Mönchehaus Museum, the presentation of the Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning, September-October 1984 (another example exhibited).New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Transformations in Sculpture, November 1985-February 1986, p. 150 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Selections from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, August-November 1986 (another example exhibited).New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Mastery: Eight Artists in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 1987-May 1988, pp. 33-34 (another example exhibited and illustrated).New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, July-October 1989, p. 208, no. 5 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning, September-November 1993, n.p. (another example exhibited).Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Fundación "La Caixa"; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection, October 1993-May 1995, fig. 6 (another example exhibited and illustrated).New York, C&M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Selected Works 1950s-1980s, June-August 1994 (another example exhibited).East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Celebrating Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture, June-July 1994.New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, October 1994-January 1995.Seattle Art Museum, Willem de Kooning in Seattle: Selected Works from 1943-1985 in Public and Private Collections, November 1995-March 1996, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).New York, Gagosian Gallery, The Human Body in Contemporary American Sculpture, February-March 1996 (another example exhibited).New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May-June 1996, p. 56, no. 17 (another example exhibited and illustrated).Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, La Sculptures des Peintres, July-October 1997 (another example exhibited).Washington, D.C., The White House, Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House-Exhibit VII: Inspried by Rodin,September-October 1998 (another example exhibited).New York, C & M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture 1964-1973, October-December 2000, no. 11 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).Potomac, Glenstone Foundation, Glenstone: The Inaugural Exhibition, September 2006-December 2008, p. 32, no. 5 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, Sculpture by Painters: Painting in Dialogue with Plastic Art, July-October 2008, p. 192, no. 114 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).Amsterdam, Temporary Stedelijk 2, Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, March-October 2011 (another example exhibited).New York, Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011-January 2012, pp. 410-411, pl. 160, fig. 7 (illustrated in color).New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Casting Modernity: Bronze in the XXth Century, April-June 2014, pp. 46-47, no. 7 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

R. Hughes, “Slap and Twist,” Time, 23 October 1972, p. 71 (another example illustrated). H. Kramer, "Art: The Sculptures of Willem de Kooning,” The New York Times, 13 October 1972, p. 32 (another example illustrated). H. Rosenberg, “Interview with de Kooning,” ARTnews, September 1972, p. 58 (another example illustrated). “Sculptures: Recent Works by Wilhelm de Kooning,” Arts Magazine, November 1972, p. 62 (another example illustrated). B. O’Doherty, America Masters: The Voice and the Myth, New York, 1973, p. 135 (another example illustrated).H. Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1973, pl. 195 (another example illustrated).P. Schjeldahl, “de Kooning’s Sculptures: Amplified Touch,” Art in America, March-April 1974, p. 63 (another example illustrated in color).D. Ashton, "Willem de Kooning: Homo Faber," Arts Magazine, January 1976, p. 61 (another example illustrated).Willem de Kooning : sculptures, lithographies, peintures, exh. cat., Geneva, Muse´e d'art et d'histoire, 1977, p. 5, no. 15 (another example illustrated).R. Hughes, “Landscapes and the Bodies of Women,” Horizon, February 1978, p. 18 (another example illustrated).Seven on the figure : Jack Beal, William Beckman, Joan Brown, John Deandrea, Willem de Kooning, Stephen Destaebler, Ben Kamihira, exh. cat., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1979, pp. 47 and 50 (another example illustrated).H. Harrison, “de Kooning: 30 Years on the East End,” The New York Times, 24 May 1981, p. 13 (another example illustrated).J. Carlson, “Architectural Digest Visits Willem de Kooning,” Architectural Digest, January 1982, pp. 63-64 (illustrated in color).A. Wallach, “At 79, de Kooning Seeks Simplicity,” Newsday, 4 December 1983, p. 4 (another example illustrated).H. Gaugh, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1983, p. 94, no. 83 (another example illustrated).Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983-84, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, pp. 10 and 14 (another example illustrated).P. Daix, “Defoulement en Couleur,” Le Quotidien de Paris, 28 June 1984 (another example illustrated).J. M. Joosten, 20 jaar verzamelen: Aanwinsten Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1963-1984, Amsterdam, 1984, p. 231, no. 439 (another example illustrated).P. Schneider, “De Kooning: L’homme de tous le Refus,” L’express, 27 July 1984 (another example illustrated).R. Smith, “de Kooning: The Light Fantastic,” Village Voice, 10 January 1984, p. 77 (another example illustrated).P. Sollers, De Kooning, Vite, Paris, 1988, no. 78 (another example illustrated in color).D. Waldman, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1988, p. 121, no. 93 (another example illustrated).B. Berkson and R. Downes, “Sub-title: Willem de Kooning, On His 85th Birthday,” Art Journal, Fall 1989, p. 244 (another example illustrated).Kodansha Ltd., Contemporary Great Masters: Willem de Kooning, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 76-77, pl. 86 (another example illustrated in color).“Artwork on Display,” Times-Georgian, 9 October 1994 (another example illustrated).O. Spiegel, "Willem de Kooning: La Fuerza Expresiva del Gusto,” La Vanguardia Magazine, 20 March 1994, p. 62 (another example illustrated).J. Zilczer, “Willem de Kooning, Pionero y Lider del Expresionismo Abstracto,” Panorama Fundación "la Caixa", March 1994, p. 3, fig. 6 (another example illustrated in color).P. Braff, “A Hometown Tribute to de Kooning at 90,” The New York Times, 3 July 1994, p. 13 (another example illustrated).R. Smith, “Long Island Shows Concentrate on Paintings,” The New York Times, 8 July 1994, p. C1 (another example illustrated).D. C. Cateforis, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1994, fig. 4 (another example illustrated).S. Chadwick, “Willem de Kooning: MFA Show Not as Abstract as Artist’s Vision,” Houston Post, 23 March 1995, p. D8 (another example illustrated).J. Kutner, "Canvassing de Kooning’s Lifetime of Art: Thorough Exhibit Makes Abstract Pieces Accessible,” Dallas Morning News, 9 April 1995 (another example illustrated).R. Hackett, “A Taste of de Kooning,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 November 1995, p. D1 (another example illustrated in color).J. Zilczer, “The Formation of the Hirshhorn Museum’s Willem de Kooning Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, p. 123, no. 1, fig. 10 (another example illustrated).V. Goldberg, “Why Painters Have Made Revolutionary Sculptors,” The New York Times, 16 October 1997 (another example illustrated).S. Yard, Willem de Kooning, Barcelona, 1997, p. 102, no. 87 (another example illustrated).H. R. Clinton, “Loaned Sculpture Fills White House Garden,” Washington Times, 5 November 1998. S. B. Conroy, “Chips Off a Master’s Block: At the White House, Sculptures Inspired by Rodin,” Washington Post, 16 November 1998 (another example illustrated).V. J. Fletcher, A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 48, fig. 36 (another example illustrated in color).S. Cheever, "Now and Then in Manhattan,” Architectural Digest, March 2000, p. 118 (another example illustrated in color).D. Finn, David, et al., 20th Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden, New York, p. 104 (another example illustrated in color).B. Hess, Willem de Kooning, Cologne, 2004, p. 104 (another example illustrated in color).M. Stevens and A. Swan, de Kooning: An American Master, New York, 2004, n.p. (another example illustrated in color).J. Wullsschlager, “Freedom in Three Dimensions: The Sculptures Made by Many Great 20th-Century Painters Illuminate the Story of Modernism,” Financial Times, 19 July 2008, p. 15.R. Shiff, Between Sense and de Kooning, London, 2011, p.181, no. 70 (another example illustrated in color). K. Siegel, Abstract Expressionism: Themes and Movements, London, p. 193 (another example illustrated in color). J. Landes, “de Kooning Show Swings for the Fences,” The East Hampton Star, 22 September 2011, p. C1 (illustrated in color).M. Stevens, "Change Agent: Willem de Kooning Redefined Modern Painting. Then He Did It Again. And Again. A Major New Retrospective Charts His Seven-Decade Career," Smithsonian, October 2011, p. 80 (another example illustrated in color). S. E. Fenson, “A Whole Man’s Life: MoMA Mounts a de Kooning Show as Vast and Varied as the Artist’s Career,” Art & Antiques, November 2011, p. 56 (another example illustrated in color). K. Wilkin, “Museums Reveal Degas’s Nudes and Islam’s Splendor in ‘What We Liked in 2011,’” Wall Street Journal, 23 December 2011 (another example illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Collection of the ArtistBy descent from the above to the present owner