Object number1953.2.5

Untitled (Three Women)

Datec. 1948

Artist Willem de Kooning (American, b. Netherlands, 1904 - 1997)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil and crayon on thick white paper adhered to board

DimensionsFramed: 28 1/4 x 34 x 2 1/4 in. (71.76 x 86.36 x 5.72 cm)
Unframed: 20 x 26 3/8 in. (50.8 x 66.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Richard Deutsch (Katherine W. Sanford, class of 1940)

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned (LL): de Kooning

BibliographyFitzgerald, Michael. Picasso and American Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. pg. 223 Edited by Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger and Nan Rosenthal. Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007), repr. Shiff, Richard, Between Sense and De Kooning (London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2011), p. 28, fig. 5, repr.ProvenanceCollection of the Artist;
Purchase by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Deutsch (Katherine W. Sanford);
Gift to Vassar College Art Gallery by Mrs. Richard Deutsch (Katherine W. Sanford, class of 1940), 1953

Vassar Exhibitions

Selections from the Permanent Collection (1990)

Alumni Reunion Exhibition (1990)

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure," February 10-April 28, 2002. (San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 27-September 8, 2002; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, September 29, 2002-January 5, 2003);

New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Picasso and American Art," September 1, 2006-September 9, 2007;

New York, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, "De Kooning: A Retrospective," September 18, 2011 - January 9, 2012;

Terms

abstraction

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