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Montauk II by 
																	Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

( American, 1904 - 1997 )

Montauk II

Willem de Kooning

( Dutch, 1904 - 1997 )

Montauk II

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Materials:

oil on paper mounted on canvas

Size Notes:

72 x 70

Description:

or LOG IN

Markings:

signed de Kooning (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc, Gorky, de Kooning, Newman,June-September 1969; Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Lart vivant aux Etats-Unis, July-September1970, pp. 52-53, illustrated; Milan, Pallazzo Reale, La Ricerca Dell'identita, October 1974-January 1975; East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981, no. 25, p. 20 (text), p. 31, illustrated; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, In Tandem: The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century, March-May1986, no. 5, p. 8 (text); New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Paintings: de Kooning, Heizer, Mitchell, Moss, Murphy, Rockburne, Smith, June-September1987; New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., In Memory of Xavier Fourcade, September-October, 1987; East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Celebrating Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture,June-July 1994, no. 3, n.p., illustrated in color; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art and The Yomiuiri Shimbum; Japan, The Miyagi Museum of Art; Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art,Founders and Heirs of the New York School, January-August 1997, no. 29, p. 81, illustrated in color; Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, A Rebours: La Rebelion Informalista (1939-1968),April-October1999, p. 141, illustrated in color; New York, The Waldorf Astoria (Residence of US Ambassador to the United Nations), Art in Embassies Loan to the United States Mission to the United Nations (Ambassador Richard Holbrook), January2000-January2001; East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, A Celebration of the Guild Hall Academy,June-August 2004,p. 3, illustrated; Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Action Painting, January-May2008, no. 81, p. 138, illustrated in color; New York, Pace Gallery, Willem de Kooning, The Figure: Movement and Gesture, April-July 2011, no. 32, pp. 11, 53, illustrated in color, p. 57 (text); Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning, 2012, no. 18, pp. 96-97, illustrated in color; Waltham, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Painting Blind, February-June2015

Literature:

Peter Schjeldahl, New York Letter,?? Art International 13, 1969no. 8, p. 75 (text); Philippe Sollers,De Kooning, Vite, Vol. I, Paris 1988, no. 65,p. 82 (text); no. 65, n.p., illustratedin color (Vol. II); Continuing Education & Summer Session 3, University of New Hampshire, Durham 1996, inside cover, illustrated in color; Richard Holbrooke, A Moveable Feast of American Art: The Official Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Washington D.C., 2000, n.p., (text); Arts Calendar,?? The East Hampton Star, June 2004, p. C7, illustrated; A Season of Artistic Achievement at Guild Hall,?? The East Hampton Star, June 2004, p. C10, illustrated; Robert Long, Heavy Hitters at Guild Hall,?? The East Hampton Star, July 2004, p. C6, illustrated; Cade Pemberton, Guild Hall: Celebrating the Artist Next Door,?? Hampton Jitney Magazine, June 2004, p. 8, illustrated; Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, 2012, no. 15, p. 390, illustrated in color; Kostbare Frauen,?? Bunte, 4April 2012, p. 104, illustrated in color (installed in 2012 exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne in 2012); Arthur Lubow, 'The Afterlife of Willem de Kooning,' The New York Times, 16 September 2022, p. C13, illustrated in color(installed in the artist's studio in 2022)

Provenance:

The artist; Thence by descent to the present owner

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