Untitled XXII
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Artwork: Untitled XXII
Size: 177.8 x 203.2 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Creation year: 1977
Marks: Signed on the stretcher
Category: Paintings
Provenance: Estate of the artist; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Acquired by the present owner from the previous in 2003
Exhibition history: Cedar Falls, The Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa; St. Louis, The St. Louis Museum of Art; and Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center, de Kooning, 1969-78, October 1978 - June 1979, p. 18, no. 20 (text); Denver, Denver Art Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; and La Jolla, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Poets & Painters, November 1979 - December 1980, p. 65, illustrated in color, p. 70 (text); Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art, 45th Annual Midyear Show, June - October 1981, n.p., no. 38, illustrated; Baltimore, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the 1970s, April - May 1987; New York, L&M; Arts, Willem de Kooning: Paintings 1975-1978, April - June 2006, n.p., no 12, illustrated in color; New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Chamberlain / de Kooning, November - December 2016, p. 49, no. 12, illustrated in color

Sotheby's New York

Date: 2019-11-14
Event: Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot Number: 13
Low Estimate: $25000000 [+4%]
High Estimate: $35000000 [-25%]
Hammer Price: $26200000
Sold For: $30105800