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Composition III
Details
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Composition III
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on paper mounted on board
18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (47.6 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Composition III
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on paper mounted on board
18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (47.6 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Provenance
The New Gallery, New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Hans Klienschmidt, Göttingen
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills
Elizabeth Heller, San Francisco, 1961
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2010, lot 127
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Hans Klienschmidt, Göttingen
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills
Elizabeth Heller, San Francisco, 1961
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2010, lot 127
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
P. G. Pavia, ed., It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art, no. 2, Autumn 1958, pl. 3 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Willem de Kooning, April 1961, n.p. (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Art, New Collectors, May 1964.
San Francisco Museum of Art, New Collectors, May 1964.
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