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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Study for "Glazier" (self portrait)
signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
graphite on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1938.
Provenance
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
Literature
E. Denby and R. Burckhardt, "My Friend de Kooning," in ARTnews Annual, New York, 1964, p. 82 (illustrated).
T. B. Hess, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Greenwich, 1972, pp. 22 and 74, no. 9 (illustrated).
S. Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, 1927-1952, New York and London, 1986, n.p., no. 73 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective: Drawings 1936-1963, February 1964, n.p. (illustrated).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh International Series: Willem de Kooning, October 1979-January 1980.
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, The Artist's Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings, 1937 to 1954, January-March 2002, no. 9 (illustrated).