Beschreibung:

Willem de Kooning Untitled #3 1969 bronze with brown patina 8 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (20.3 x 19.1 x 11.4 cm) Incised with initials and numbered "W de K. 3/6" on the reverse. This work is number 3 from an edition of 6.
Provenance Estate of the artist, New York Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session Including Works from the Collection of Michael Crichton, May 12, 2010, lot 241 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Exhibited New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October-November 1972 (another cast exhibited) Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; then travelled to Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, de Kooning: Drawings/Sculpture, March 1974-June 1975 (another cast exhibited). Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; then travelled to London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977-January 1978 (another cast exhibited) Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning/Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979-January 1980 East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning Works from 1951-1981, May-July 1981 New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Willem de Kooning The Complete Sculpture, 1969-1981, May-June 1983 Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning Skulpturen, September-October 1983, (another cast exhibited) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; then travelled to Berlin, Akademie der Kunste; Paris, Centres de Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983-September 1984 (another cast exhibited) Gosler, Das Monchehaus Museum, Exhibition on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning September-October 1984 New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, May-June 1996, p. 52, no. 3 (illustrated, another cast exhibited) New York, Mattew Marks Gallery and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Willem de Kooning Drawings and Sculpture, October-December 1998, (another cast exhibited) Literature Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, exh. cat., New York, n.p., no. 34 (another cast exhibited) de Kooning: Drawings/Sculpture, exh. cat., 1974, n.p., no. 129 (another cast exhibited). The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, exh. cat., 1977, n.p., no. 3 (another cast exhibited) Willem de Kooning Skulpturen, exh. cat., 1983, pp. 38-39 and 122, no. 3 (illustrated, another cast exhibited) Willem de Kooning Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, ext. cat., 1983, p. 248, no. 259 (illustrated, another cast exhibited) Willem de Kooning Sculpture, exh. cat., Matthew Marks Gallery, 1996, p. 52, no. 3 (illustrated, another cast exhibited) Willem de Kooning Drawings and Sculpture, exh. cat., 1998, p. 117, pl. 38 (illustrated, another cast exhibited)