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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Willem de Kooning

Composition III

Session begins in

November 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997


Composition III

signed (lower left)

oil on paper mounted on Masonite

18 ¾ by 22 ¾ in.

47.6 by 57.8 cm.

Executed in 1958.

The New Gallery, New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Dr. Hans Klienschmidt, Göttingen

Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills

Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1961)

Sotheby's New York, 10 November 2010, lot 127 (consigned by the above)

Roger Sant, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 18 November 2022, lot 232 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Willem de Kooning, April 1961, no. 3, p. 15, illustrated

San Francisco Museum of Art, New Collectors, May - June 1964

"A Magazine for Abstract Art," It Is., no. 2, Autumn 1958, pl. 3, illustrated