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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Switzerland

Elaine de Kooning

Vestibule Killing

Session begins in

September 27, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Switzerland

Elaine de Kooning

1918 - 1989


Vestibule Killing

signed (lower right)

oil on canvas

36 ⅛ by 32 ⅛ in.

91.8 by 81.6 cm.

Executed in 1955-56.

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1957)

Acquired from the above by descent to the present owner

Exh. Cat., Athens, University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Baltimore, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Decker Gallery; Little Rock, The Arkansas Arts Center; Huntsville Museum of Art, Elaine de Kooning, March 1992 - June 1993, p. 22, illustrated (in a reproduction of Tibor de Nagy Gallery 1957 exhibition poster)

Cathy Curtis, A Generous Vision The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning, New York 2017, p. 88

New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Elaine de Kooning, November 1957, illustrated (on the exhibition poster)