LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

70.00 in. (177.80 cm.) (height) by 80.00 in. (203.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'de Kooning' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Xavier Fourcade, De Kooning: New Paintings, 1977, October-November 1977. Bucharest, Cluj and Brasov, The Artist at Work in America, organized by the International Communications Agency, May-August 1979. Embassy of the United States, Copenhagen, organized by Art In Embassies, 1981 (on loan). London, Tate Gallery, April 1992-March 1994 (on loan). London, Tate Gallery, New Displays 1992, February 1992-February 1993, no. 25. Kunstmuseum Basel, De Kooning: Paintings, 1960-1980, September 2005-January 2006, pp. 114-115, no. 23 (illustrated in color). New York, Museum of Modern Art, De Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011-January 2012, p. 432, no. 176 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

D. Y. Ho and R. M. Sapolsky, "Gene Therapy for the Nervous System," Scientific American, June 1997, p. 120 (illustrated in color). "Tate Report: Tate Gallery Biennial Report," 1992-1994, p. 89. "The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors," ARTnews, summer 2007, p. 158 (illustrated in color). S. Yard, Willem de Kooning: Works, Writings and Interviews, Barcelona, 2007, pp. 118-119 (illustrated in color). J. Chung, "The Museum Downstairs," Wall Street Journal, 11 September 2009, p. W10 (illustrated in color). J. Saltz, "Definitive: At MoMA, the Full, Amazing, Ever-Evolving, Never-Retreating Story of Willem de Kooning," New York Magazine, 26 September 2011, p. 74 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

The Willem de Kooning Estate, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997.