Live Auction 18982Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Featuring The Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Lot 294 Property from the Robert and Nettie Benenson Foundation

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Untitled

Closed3 December 2020

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USD 50,000

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on newsprint
22 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. (57.5 x 36.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1970s.

The Estate of Edward Benenson, New York
Gift of the above to the present owner

Specialist note


I'm not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting. I paint this way because I can keep putting more and more things in it: drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. —Willem de Kooning