Contemporary Art Evening Auction

Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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The Collection of Sidney & Bernice Clyman

WILLEM DE KOONING | SEATED MAN (CLOWN)

Auction Closed

June 30, 01:51 AM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

WILLEM DE KOONING

1904 - 1997

SEATED MAN (CLOWN) 


signed

oil on Masonite

40 ¾ by 24 ⅛ in. 61.3 by 40.8 cm.

Executed in 1941.

The artist

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham 

Burt Kleiner, Los Angeles

Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills 

The Purchase Gallery, Inc., Purchase, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above in November 1978

Sydney Tillim, "The Figure and the Figurative in Abstract Expressionism," Artforum, Vol. IV, No. 1, September 1965, p. 48, illustrated (titled Clown)

Sally Yard, "Willem de Kooning's Men," Arts Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 4, December 1981, p. 138, illustrated, and pp. 139-141 (text) (titled Clown)

Exh. Cat., Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, Allan Stone Gallery Booth, Willem de Kooning: Slipping Glimpses, 1920s to 1960s, 2006, n.p., illustrated in color (in installation for the exhibition Willem de Kooning: Liquefying Cubism at Allan Stone Gallery, New York in 1994-1995)

Donald Kuspit, "Beauty and the Beastly Artist: Willem de Kooning's Destructiveness," artnet Magazine, 6 October 2011, online (text)

Exh. Cat., Denver Art Museum (and travelling), Women of Abstract Expressionism, 2016, p. 32, illustrated (in progress in the artist's studio)