Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Lot 19Property from an Important Swiss Collection

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

(i)-(iii) Untitled

Fermé26 March 2015

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GBP 30,000

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
(i)-(iii) Untitled
each: signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
each: charcoal on paper
each: 11 x 8 3/8in. (28 x 21.3cm.)
(3)Executed in 1965-1970

The Estate of the artist.
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Sprüth Magers Lee, London.
Gagosian Gallery, London.
Simon Lee Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

‘I am always in the picture somewhere. The amount of space I use I am always in, I seem to move around in it. And there seems to be a time when I lose sight of what I wanted to do, and then I am out of it. If the picture has a countenance I keep it. If it hasn’t, I throw it away’ (W. de Kooning, quoted in R. Motherwell, A. Reinhardt and B. Karpel (eds.), Modern Artists in America, First Series, 1952, p. 12).