Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Elaine de Kooning
Squeeze Play
Auction Closed
May 19, 10:59 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Elaine de Kooning
1918 - 1989
Squeeze Play
signed with the artist's initials (lower right); titled (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
30 by 30 in.
76.2 by 76.2 cm.
Executed in 1957.
Graham Gallery, New York
Neikrug Gallery, Inc., New York
Koch Galleries, Mobile
Private Collection, Chalfont
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 7 October 1989, lot 379 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New Haven (acquired from the above)
Christie's East, New York, 6 November 1990, lot 53
Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner
Neikrug Gallery, Inc., New York
Koch Galleries, Mobile
Private Collection, Chalfont
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 7 October 1989, lot 379 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New Haven (acquired from the above)
Christie's East, New York, 6 November 1990, lot 53
Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner
Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists: A Complete Documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals: 1951-1957, New York, 2000, p. 104, illustrated in color
"Art Market Updates," American Fine Art Magazine, issue 41, September - October 2019, p. 38, illustrated in color
"Art Market Updates," American Fine Art Magazine, issue 41, September - October 2019, p. 38, illustrated in color
New York, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Elaine de Kooning, November 1957
Pensacola Museum of Art, The Impressionist Vision in American Art, March - April 1980, no. 25
East Hampton, Eric Firestone Gallery, Montauk Highway II: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons, August - September 2018
Pensacola Museum of Art, The Impressionist Vision in American Art, March - April 1980, no. 25
East Hampton, Eric Firestone Gallery, Montauk Highway II: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons, August - September 2018