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Willem De Kooning

Brown Derby Road

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 4,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Willem De Kooning

1904 - 1997


Brown Derby Road

signed de Kooning (lower left)

oil on canvas

62 ¾ by 49 ¼ in. 159.3 by 125.1 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Dr. Mary C. Weitzman, Massachusetts (acquired from the above in 1959)
Sotheby’s, New York, 17 May 2000, lot 37 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 
Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Recent Paintings by Willem de Kooning, New York, 1962, fig. 44, illustrated (in an installation photograph at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959)
Helen A. Harrison, ”De Kooning: 30 Years on the East End,” The New York Times, 24 May 1981, p. 1
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, de Kooning, 1959, no. 11
Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art and Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective Exhibition from Public and Private Collections, 1965
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Willem de Kooning. Works from 1951-1981, 1981, no. 11, pp. 11, 20 and 25, illustrated