Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Composition I

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Composition I
signed 'de Kooning' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
23 x 22 3/4 in. (58.4 x 57.7 cm.)
Painted in 1955.

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Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Irving Janis, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Purchase Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1983

Pre-Lot Text
The Defining Gesture: Modern Masters from the Eppler Family Collection

Exhibited
San Francisco, Gumps Gallery, May 1958.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Contemporary Prints and Paintings, June-September 1973.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, on loan, June 1981-December 1982.
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art of Collecting Modern Art, February-March 1986, n.p., fig. 17 (illustrated in color).