Woman/Verso: Untitled

Object Details

Provenance

The artist, New York, from 1948

Harold Diamond, New York, from 1948-1 November 1962

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1 November 1962-17 May 1966

Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966

Exhibition History

FINE ARTS GALLERY, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington. "American Painting 1910-1960," 19 April-10 May 1964, no. 15, ill.

[INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. "The Decisive Years: 1943-1953," 14 January-11 March 1965.]

MARLBOROUGH-GERSON GALLERY, New York. "International Expressionism Part I," April-May 1968, no. 9, ill.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Willem de Kooning," no. 24, ill. TOUR: STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam, 19 September-17 November 1968; TATE GALLERY, London, 8 December-26 January 1969; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 3 March-27 April, no. 116, ill. p. 61; ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 17 May-6 July; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 28 July-14 September.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, pl. 532, p. 383, p. 681 (recto and verso).

MUSEUM OF ART, CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh. "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series," 26 October 1979-6 January 1980, no. 11, p. 42.

RHEINHALLEN MESSEGELÄNDE, Cologne. "Westkunst-Eine Ausstellung," 30 May-16 August 1981, no. 418 and 418a, ill. p. 404.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture," 15 December 1983-26 February 1984, no. 168, ill. p. 165. Tour: AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE, Berlin, 11 March-29 April; MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 28 June-24 September, ill. p. 78.

PACE GALLERY, New York. "Willem de Kooning and Jean Dubuffet: The Women," 30 November 1990-5 January 1991, plate 6.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Willem de Kooning: Paintings," 8 May-5 September 1994, no. 22, pp. 121, 54, 97, 104.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 21 October 1993-9 January 1994, no. 6, pp. 199, 216; colorpl. 6, pp. 66-67. TOUR: FUNDACIO "LA CAIXA," CENTRE CULTURAL, Barcelona, 17 February-3 April 1994; HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta, 13 September-27 November; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 10 December-19 February 1995; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 19 March-28 May.

CHRISTIE'S, New York. Sale, "Contemporary Art from the Boris Leavitt Collection," 20 November 1996, lot no. 7, pp. 28-33.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "de Kooning: A Retrospective," 18 September 2011-9 January 2012, fig. 1 (color), p. 197; colorplate 62, p. 198; fig. 2 (color), p. 199; p. 201; figs. 1-3 (color), pp. 205-207.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.

Published References

ROSE, BARBARA. American Art Since 1900 (New York: Praeger, 1967), p. 184, ill. 6-33.

DRUDI, GABRIELLA. Willem de Kooning (Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1972), ill. 46.

ROSENBERG, HAROLD. Willem de Kooning (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973), plate 61.

LARSON, PHILIP and PETER SCHJELDAHL. "De Kooning's Drawings," in De Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures (New York: Dutton, 1974), ill. 14.

GARSON, INEZ. "Willem de Kooning at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Scala, 1974), no. 6.

CARMEAN, E.A., JR., "Willem de Kooning: The Women," in American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist by E.A. Carmean, Jr. and Eliza E. Rathbone with Thomas B. Hess (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1978), pp. 159-160, fig. 5.

WALDMAN, DIANE. Willem de Kooning in East Hampton (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978), p. 132, ill.

HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979), p. 109.

YARD, SALLY E. "Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-six Years in New York--1927-1952," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton University, 1980), p. 180, fig. 249.

SOLLERS, PHILIPPE. De Kooning, Vite II (Paris: Editions de la Difference, 1987), no. 14, ill.

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UNSIGNED. Advertisement for Willem de Kooning: from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection, Art Journal 52/4, (Winter 1993).

UNSIGNED. "Barcelona acogera la obra de Willem de Kooning," Navarra hoy (22 October 1993).

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UNSIGNED. Notable New Books from Rizzoli, The New Criterion (December 1993).

LELYVELD, NITA. "Exhibition Marks Artist's 90th Year," [unknown source] (7 December 1993) B6.

CARNEGIE, M.D. "Insides Out," Washington City Paper (10 December 1993): p. 52.

CATEFORIS, DAVID. "Willem de Kooning," Art Journal 53/4 (Winter 1993): 86-89.

SANTOS-TORROELLA, RAFAEL. "De Kooning, en persona," ABC de las artes, p. 32.

ZILCZER, JUDITH. "Willem de Kooning," El Guia 7 (February 1994): p. 19.

UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning: Collecio Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC," (Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació "La Caixa," 1994), [page unknown].

UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning, una figura clave del expressionismo abstracto," Panorama (February 1994), [page unknown].

SPIEGEL, OLGA. "Barcelona acoge la primera exposicion en Espana de Willem de Kooning," La Vanguardia (13 February 1994), p. 37.

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Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Date

1948

Accession Number

66.1197.A-B

Artist

Willem de Kooning, American, b. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1904–1997

Type

Painting

Medium

A: Oil and enamel on fiberboard B: Oil and enamel on fiberboard

Dimensions

53 5/8 × 44 5/8 in. (136.1 × 113.2 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)

On View

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor

Record ID

hmsg_66.1197.A-B

Usage

Not determined

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