Lot #959: WILLEM DE KOONING - Female Nude - Pen and ink and wash drawing on paper

     

Artist: Willem de Kooning (Dutch/American, 1904 - 1997).
Title: "Female Nude".
Medium: Pen and ink and wash drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1940s.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (273 x 222 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Drawn on cream wove watermarked paper. Good condition; removed from a notebook; staining at binding holes; toning verso; tape remains verso which subtly telegraph through to recto, outside of the image; the image itself in very good condition. Provenance: Private collection, Boston. Comment(s): Willem De Kooning, one of the recognized masters of Abstract Expressionism, was a founder of the New York School of action painting. "Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure," De Kooning once said. "I always seem to be wrapped up in the melodrama of vulgarity." Image copyright © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29950-2-16000]