Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
The Collection of Sidney & Bernice Clyman
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)