The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Willem De Kooning

Untitled XV

Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Willem De Kooning

(1904 - 1997)


Untitled XV

signed (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

79 ⅞ by 70 in. 202.9 by 177.8 cm.

Executed in 1983. 

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in July 1987 by the present owner

Julie L. Belcove, "Collected Wisdom," Architectural Digest, December 2011, p. 130, illustrated in color

Richard Schiff, Between Sense and de Kooning, London, 2011, no. 101, p. 259, illustrated in color

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, pp. 11, 132, illustrated in color (in installation) 

John Thomason, "Norton's New Exhibition a Trove of Contemporary Art Riches," Boca Magazine, 16 March 2022 (online)

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Recent Paintings 1983-1986, November 1986 - January 1987, no. 4, n.p., illustrated in color

Stamford, Whitney Museum of American Art, Enduring Creativity, April - June 1988, pp. 16-17, illustrated 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection, May 1993 - December 1994

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Bonn, Kunstmuseum; and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s, October 1995 - April 1997, no. 18, pp. 98, 125, illustrated in color

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Collection Curated by Bill Katz, July 2007 - January 2008

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion: The Eye of the Collector, January - April 2009

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022