Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled
signed and dedicated 'to Edwin with love from Bill' (lower right)
graphite and wax crayon on paperboard, double-sided
13 1/8 x 10 in. (33.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled
signed and dedicated 'to Edwin with love from Bill' (lower right)
graphite and wax crayon on paperboard, double-sided
13 1/8 x 10 in. (33.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Edwin Denby, New York, gift of the artist By descent from the above to the present owner
T. Hess, Willem de Kooning Drawings, Greenwich, 1972, no. 50 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Berlin, Akademie der Kunste, Willem de Kooning: Drawings-Paintings-Sculpture, December 1983-May 1984, p. 48, no. 40 (illustrated). Newport Harbor Art Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, July 1988-April 1989, no. 15 (illustrated). New York University, Grey Art Gallery, Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s, May-July 2000, p. 11 (illustrated).
Specialist note
"I can't get away from the woman. Wherever I look, I find her"– Willem de Kooning
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