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ART DETAIL
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)










Provenance
Allan Stone Gallery, New YorkPrivate Collection, New York
Private Collection, United States
Exhibition
North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only)New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26
...More...Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated
Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist)
Easthampton, Guild Hall, Works from 1951 – 1981, May – July 1981, cat. no 21 (exhibition checklist)
West Palm Beach, Florida, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Figurative Masters of the Americas, January 4 – February 12, 2023
Literature
Thomas B. Hess, "De Kooning's New Women," Art News, March 1965, p. 37 (text reference)Marla Prather, et al. Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1994, fig. 15 (illustrated p. 15)
Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Liquefying Cubism, 1994, illustrated p. VII (installation photograph from the 1965 De Kooning/Cornell exhibition)
John Elderfield, et al. Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011, fig. 7 (illustrated p. 356)
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