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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled #4
inscribed with initials and numbered 'W de K. 6/4' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
4 x 8¼ x 6¼ in. (10 x 21 x 15.5 cm.)
Executed in 1969. This work is number four from an edition of six.

The Estate of Xavier Fourcade
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1987, lot 13
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"In de Kooning's hands, sculptural form became as susceptible as a rotated canvas to the vagaries of reorientation. It was like the sphere that the artist imagined he could never completely shape: turning, adjusting, turning, adjusting."

(R. Shiff, Willem de Kooning the Figure: Movement and Gesture, exh. cat., New York, 2011, n.p.)