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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Willem de Kooning

Woman

Session begins in

November 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997


Woman

signed (lower left)

oil, graphite and charcoal on vellum

80 ¼ by 36 in.

203.8 by 91.4 cm.

Executed in 1965.


Please note this work has been requested for the forthcoming 2026 exhibition, Willem de Kooning Drawing, organized by the Art Institute of Chicago.

Harold Diamond, New York

Stephen Mazoh & Co., New York

Dr. Winston H. Price, Baltimore (acquired from the above circa 1967)

Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Gagosian Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1991)

Acquired from the above in December 1991 by the present owner

Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August - September 1972

Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Willem de Kooning's Door Cycle, October 1995 - May 1996

M.K. Miliken, Jr. “The Mazoh Method, There’s No Business like Art Business,” Baltimore Evening Sun, 31 August 1966, p. D3

Exh. Cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, Willem de Kooning, Paintings, May – September 1994, fig. 1, p.32, illustrated in color

Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning, Barcelona 1997, p. 128

Carolyn Lanchner, Willem de Kooning, New York 2011, p. 33

Richard Shiff, Between Sense and de Kooning, London 2011, p. 196

Sally Yard, Willem de Kooning: Works, Writings and Interviews, Barcelona 2007, p. 80 (text) and p. 99, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011 - January 2012, p. 365, illustrated in color

Judith Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, New York 2014, p. 168 (text)