Willem de Kooning - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Estate of the artist, New York
    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session Including Works from the Collection of Michael Crichton, May 12, 2010, lot 241
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October-November 1972 (another cast exhibited)
    Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; then travelled to Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, de Kooning: Drawings/Sculpture, March 1974-June 1975 (another cast exhibited).
    Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; then travelled to London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977-January 1978 (another cast exhibited)
    Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning/Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979-January 1980
    East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981
    New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture, 1969-1981, May-June 1983
    Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September-October 1983, (another cast exhibited)
    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; then travelled to Berlin, Akademie der Kunste; Paris, Centres de Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983-September 1984 (another cast exhibited)
    Gosler, Das Monchehaus Museum, Exhibition on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning, September-October 1984
    New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, May-June 1996, p. 52, no. 3 (illustrated, another cast exhibited)
    New York, Mattew Marks Gallery and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, October-December 1998, (another cast exhibited)

  • Literature

    Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, exh. cat., New York, n.p., no. 34 (another cast exhibited)
    de Kooning: Drawings/Sculpture, exh. cat., 1974, n.p., no. 129 (another cast exhibited).
    The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, exh. cat., 1977, n.p., no. 3 (another cast exhibited)
    Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, exh. cat., 1983, pp. 38-39 and 122, no. 3 (illustrated, another cast exhibited)
    Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, ext. cat., 1983, p. 248, no. 259 (illustrated, another cast exhibited)
    Willem de Kooning Sculpture, exh. cat., Matthew Marks Gallery, 1996, p. 52, no. 3 (illustrated, another cast exhibited)
    Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, exh. cat., 1998, p. 117, pl. 38 (illustrated, another cast exhibited)

172

Untitled #3

1969
bronze with brown patina
8 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (20.3 x 19.1 x 11.4 cm)
Incised with initials and numbered "W de K. 3/6" on the reverse.
This work is number 3 from an edition of 6.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am