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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 29, 2023 | Christie's | New York | Post-War to Present | 149 | $****** - ****** | Untitled (Massacre Scene) |
Works on Paper
29.8 x 40.3 cm (11.75 x 15.88 in)
graphite on paper
signed and dated "de Kooning 41" (lower right)
Collection of Mr. Daniel Brustlein and Mrs. Janice Biala Brustlein, Paris and New York, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1940
By descent from the above to the present owner, 2000
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective: Drawings 1936-1963 , February 1964, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, The Artist"s Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings, 1937 to 1954 , January-March 2002, n.p., no. 8 (illustrated).
T. B. Hess, Willem de Kooning: Drawings , Greenwich, 1972, pp. 19-20 and 67, no. 4 (illustrated).
S. Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, 1927-1952 , New York and London, 1986, n.p., no. 54 (illustrated).
J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning , London, 2014, p. 53 (illustrated).
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Untitled (Massacre Scene)
signed and dated "de Kooning 41" (lower right)
graphite on paper
11 ¾ x 15 7/8 in. (29.8 x 40.3 cm.)
Executed in 1941.