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LOT 30

Lot 30

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Lot 30 Details
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch/American

UNTITLED (FROM SEVENTEEN LITHOGRAPHS FOR FRANK O’HARA), 1968-1988

Lithograph on chine-colle on Twinrocker paper; stamped signature to lower right margin, numbered hc V/V in pencil to margin. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, with wide margins.
Plate 14" x 11" — 35.6 x 27.9 cm.

Estimate $300-$500

Realised: $270.60
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
  • Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
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Willem de Kooning created seventeen charcoal drawings on sheets of Mylar as accompanying illustration’s to Frank O’Hara’s “Ode to Willem de Kooning.” Of these seventeen drawings, only three were used for the 1967 O'Hara memorial volume published by the Museum of Modern Art, entitled In Memory of My Feelings. In 1988, the complete suite with a selection of poems by O’Hara was published in an edition of 550. de Kooning's drawings were transferred directly from the plastic sheets to lithographic plates by Benjamin Shiff.

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