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Inv. n°: CL1232

Willem de Kooning

This object is on display at the FAMM . Come experience it in person.

Signed with the artist's initials E de K (lower right)

26.7 by 17.1 cm
1939
Graphite on paper

Provenance

  • Estate of the artist
  • Private collection, Texas
  • Thence by descent to the previous owner
  • Acquired at Sotheby's, New York, 2023

Publications

  • J. K. Bledsoe, Elaine de Kooning, 1992, p. 100, fig. 49
  • Brandon Brame, Fortune Ann Gibson and Simona Cupic, Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, DelMonico / Presto, 2015, p. 89
  • Ellen G Landau, ""Biographies and Bodies": Self and Other Portraits by Elaine and Bill de Kooning", Women of Abstract Expressionism, Denver Art Museum / Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016, p. 31

Exhibitions

  • Elaine de Kooning, A Retrospective, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, March 21, 1992 — May 3, 1992
  • Elaine de Kooning, A Retrospective, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA, August 7, 1992 — November 1, 1992
  • Elaine de Kooning, A Retrospective, Maryland Institute of the Arts, Baltimore, USA, January 22, 1993 — February 21, 1993
  • Elaine de Kooning, A Retrospective, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA, March 4, 1993 — April 11, 1993
  • Elaine de Kooning, A Retrospective, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama, USA, May 2, 1993 — June 13, 1993
  • Elaine de Kooning, A Retrospective, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, USA, January 30, 1994
  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2020

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