Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Small Seated Figure

Closed16 May 2013

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Small Seated Figure
signed and numbered 'de Kooning 3/7' (on the left leg)
bronze with brown patina
20 x 12 x 12 in. (52 x 30.4 x 30.4 cm.)
Executed in 1973. This work is number three from an edition of seven plus two artist's proofs.

Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York
Private collection, Pittsburgh
LeFevre Gallery, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 7 November 1990, lot 46
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990

Specialist note

"De Kooning is the latest and I suppose the last of the series of great painters whose occasional work in three dimensions has enriched and even transformed the sculpture of the modern period. As with Daumier, Degas, and Picasso, de Kooning's talent is essentially linear: the figure imaged in painting calls out for its embodiment in sculpture. The implications of graphic suggestion of colume, once realized in clay, take on new power and energy, separate from their source on the flat surface, uninhibited by the sculptor's traditional concern with gravity and structure."

William Tucker, "On the Sculpture," Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, New York, 1996, p. 45.