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Self-Portrait #1
Details
ELAINE DE KOONING (1918-1989)
Self-Portrait #1
signed 'Elaine de Kooning' (on the strainer)
oil on Masonite
23 ½ x 17 7⁄8 in. (58.7 x 44.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1942.
Self-Portrait #1
signed 'Elaine de Kooning' (on the strainer)
oil on Masonite
23 ½ x 17 7⁄8 in. (58.7 x 44.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1942.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
T. Keane, "Instant Illuminations: Elaine de Kooning’s Early Portraiture," Hyperallergic, digital, 4 April 2015, n.p. (illustrated).
Elaine de Kooning Portrayed, exh. cat., Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, New York, 2015, p. 8, fig.2 (illustrated).
Elaine de Kooning Portrayed, exh. cat., Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, New York, 2015, p. 8, fig.2 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Montclair Art Museum, Portraits by Elaine de Kooning, March-April 1973.
Port Washington Library, Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, October 1982.
Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Elaine de Kooning Portraits, February-April 1991.
Athens, Georgia Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Baltimore, Maryland Institute of the Arts, College of Art; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center; Huntsville Museum of Art; Miami, Art Museum at Florida International University and Huntington, Heckscher Museum of Art, Elaine De Kooning, March 1992-January 1994, p. 48, no. 2 (illustrated).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, January 1999.
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Elaine De Kooning: Portraits, March 2015-January 2016, pp. 14-15, no. 1.1 (illustrated).
Port Washington Library, Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, October 1982.
Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Elaine de Kooning Portraits, February-April 1991.
Athens, Georgia Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Baltimore, Maryland Institute of the Arts, College of Art; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center; Huntsville Museum of Art; Miami, Art Museum at Florida International University and Huntington, Heckscher Museum of Art, Elaine De Kooning, March 1992-January 1994, p. 48, no. 2 (illustrated).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, January 1999.
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Elaine De Kooning: Portraits, March 2015-January 2016, pp. 14-15, no. 1.1 (illustrated).
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