Willem de Kooning 1904–1997 [no title] signed ‘de Kooning’ on the stretcher oil on canvas 223.5 x 195.6 cm (88 x 77 in.) Painted in 1984. Estimate £7,000,000 – 9,000,000 ‡ plus Buyers Premium and VAT*
Provenance Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995, fig. 23, p. 27 (illustrated) Willem de Kooning: Die Späten Gemälde, Die 80er Jahre, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, fig. 23, p. 31 (illustrated) Willem de Kooning: De Late Schilderijen 1981 – 1987, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, fig. 23, p. 27 (illustrated) Willem de Kooning, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, 2003, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated)
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