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Willem De Kooning

Seated Woman on a Bench

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May 19, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Willem De Kooning

1904 - 1997


Seated Woman on a Bench

incised with artist's signature and number 3/7 (on the lateral edge)

bronze

37¾ by 36 by 43⅜ in.

95.9 by 91.4 by 87.3 cm.

Executed in 1972, this work is number 3 from an edition of 7 plus 3 artist's proofs.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner
Harold Rosenberg, de Kooning, New York, 1973, no. 197, illustrated in color 
Peter Schjeldahl, "De Kooning's Sculptures: Amplified Touch," Art in America, LXII, March - April 1974, pp. 60 and 62, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings and Sculptures, 1977, illustrated
Harry Gaugh, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1983, no. 88, p. 99, illustrated in color
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Biennial Report 1980-82, London, 1983, p. 52 (another example illustrated in color).
Joop Joosten, 20 Jaar Verzmelem (20 Years of Collecting), Amsterdam, 1984, no. 438, p. 231, illustrated
Diane Waldman, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1988, no. 94, p. 122, illustrated in color
Phillippe Sollers, De Kooning, Vite I and II (Oeuvres), Paris, 1988, no. 77, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Seattle, Washington University, Henry Art Gallery, Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning, 1993, n.p., illustrated in color
Exh. Cat. Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, The Essential Gesture, 1994, pp. 28-29, illustrated in color
Jonathan Fineberg, Since 1940: Strategies of Being , New York, 1995, no. 3.5, illustrated
Jean-Louis Prat, La Sculpture des Peintures, Saint-Paul, 1997, no. 175, pp. 240-242, illustrated in color
Thomas Hess, Willem de Kooning, Cologne, 2004, p. 70, illustrated in color
Christian Bournay, Paroles d'Artiste: Willem de Kooning, Paris, 2022, p. 49, illustrated in color
Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August - September 1972 (another example exhibited).
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October - November 1972, no. 44, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Art in Space: Some Turning Points, May - June 1973, no. 6, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, [Title Unknown], October 1973 - January 1974 (another example exhibited)
New York, Fourcade, Droll Inc., de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Lithographs from 1951 to 1972, 1973 (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; St Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, de Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures, March 1974 - June 1975, no. 62, p. 146, illustrated
Toronto, Pollock Gallery, de Kooning: Major Paintings and Sculptures, October - November 1974 (another example exhibited)
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 1967-1975, December 1975 - February 1976, no. 25, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Seattle Art Museum, de Kooning: New Paintings and Sculpture, February - March 1976 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum; Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire and Grenoble, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Willem de Kooning: Sculptures and Lithographs, March 1976 - September 1977, no. 20, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May - June 1976 (another example exhibited)
Austin, University Art Museum, de Kooning: Lithographs, Sculpture, Painting, October 1976 - November 1976 (another example exhibited)
Houston, University of Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, de Kooning:  Recent Works, January – February 1977 (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture:  Matisse to de Kooning, March – April 1977
New York, Wave Hill, Opening Exhibition, May – June 1977
Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon, Willem de Kooning: Peintures et Sculptures Recentes, September - October 1977 (another example exhibited)
Edinburgh. Fruit Market Gallery, and London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs, October 1977 – January 1978).
Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art; Ljubljana, Museum of Modern Art; Bucharest, Romanian National Museum of Art; Warsaw, National Museum; Krakow, Branch Post; Helsinki, National Museum of Art; East Berlin, Amerika House; Alicante, Caja de Ahorros; Madrid, Fundacion Juan March; Oslo, Norwegian National Gallery of Art; Dordrechts Museum, organized  by the International communications Agency, Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture, October 1977 - September 1979 (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, 1963-1977, February - April 1978, no. 89, p. 120, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Large Scale, Small Scale, April – June 1978 (another example exhibited)
New York, Wave Hill, Figure in the Landscape, May – October 1978 (another example exhibited)
Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Matrix 12: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art - Willem de Kooning, August - November 1978 (another example exhibited)
Cedar Falls, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art; St. Louis Art Museum and Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Museum, de Kooning 1969-78, October 1978 - April 1979, no. 34, p. 45, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, About the Strange Nature of Money, November 1978 - September 1979, illustrated in color, (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, 1978-1979, October - November 1979 (another example exhibited)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979 - January 1980, no. 123, p. 140, illustrated (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981, May - July 1981, no. 71, p. 33, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Drawing into Sculpture, 1400-1980, July - September 1981 (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, 1981-82, March - May 1982 (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: the Complete Sculpture, 1969-1981, May - June 1983 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Willem de Kooning, The North Atlantic Light 1960-1983, May - October 1983, no. 68, p. 109, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum, Trustees Choice, 1983 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September - October 1983, no. 17, p. 67, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Kunst; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983 - September 1984 (another example exhibited and illustrated); p. 259, no. 275 (New York); p. 263 (Berlin); p. 231, no. 438, p. 231 (Paris)
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Willem de Kooning Paintings and Sculpture 1971-1983, November 1984 -  January 1985, no. 16, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art, November 1985 - February 1986, no. 41, pp. 25 and 103, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, In Tandem: the Painter, Sculptor in the Twentieth Century, March - May 1986, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects Art Since 1940, September - November 1986, p. 61, illustrated (another example exhibited)
University Park, Pennsylvania State University, Palmer Museum of Art, Collecting with a Passion: The David and Gerry Pincus Collection, August 1993 - January 1994 (another example exhibited)
Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning, September - November 1993 (another example exhibited)
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection, October 1993 - January 1994 (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Gallery, Works on display in honor of de Kooning's birthday, April - May 1994 (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Celebrating Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture, June - July 1994
Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, The Essential Gesture, October - December 1994, no. 7, pp. 28-29 and 60, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Anthony d'Offay, Sculpture, December 1994 - January 1995, no. 18, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Seattle Art Museum, Willem de Kooning in Seattle: Selected Works from 1943 to 1985 in Public and Private Collections, November 1995 - March 1996, no. 15, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May - June 1996, no. 18, p. 52, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Washington, D.C., The White House, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, October 1996 - September 1997, p. 74, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, C & M Arts, Figurative Art from the 20th Century, October - December 1999, no. 10 (another example exhibited)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, What's Modern, November  -December 2004, pp. 68-69, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, C & M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture 1965/1973, October - December 2000, no. 10, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Sculpture by Painters: Painting in Dialogue with Plastic Art, July - October 2008, pp. 190-191, no. 113, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Temporary Stedelijk, Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, March - October 2011 (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011 - January 2012, no. 161, pp. 414 and 496, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Tampa Museum of Art, Masterworks of 20th Century Sculpture from the Martin Z. Marguilies Collection, March – September 2012 (another example exhibited)
Museo Picasso Malaga, The Grotesque Factor, October 2012 – February 2013, p. 319, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Skarstedt Gallery, de Kooning Sculptures, 1972-1974, November -December 2015, no. 9, p. 29, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Grand Palais, Rodin: L’exposition de centenaire, March – July 2017, no. 312, p. 322, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)