Details

Provenance

Joseph H. Hirshhorn III, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1964) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1982) Private Collection Private Collection, Düsseldorf PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired from the above) Acquired from the above in January 2001 by the present owner

Exhibited

Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art and Cambridge, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning , April - June 1965, no. 37, illustrated (traveled to Northampton only) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting , December 1965 - January 1966, no. 25, n.p. (text) New York, M. Knoedler & Co., De Kooning: Paintings and Drawings Since 1963 , November - December 1967 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Tate Gallery; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning , September 1968 - September 1969, no. 93, p. 129, illustrated and p. 164 (text) (New York); no. 81, n.p., illustrated (Amsterdam) Bonn, Rheinischen Landesmuseums; Rome, Galleria d'Arte Moderna; Warsaw, National Museum of Poland; and Baltimore Museum of Art and The Maryland Science Center, Two Hundred Years of American Painting , June 1976 - February 1977, no. 52, p. 52 (text) and p. 53, illustrated (Bonn); no. 53, n.p., illustrated (Rome); no. 48 (Baltimore) Akron Art Institute, Ten Paintings and Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum , July - September 1978 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, 1960-83 , May - October 1983, no. 5, p. 21 (text) and p. 28, illustrated in color New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; and Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture , December 1983 - September 1984, no. 216, p. 202, illustrated in color and p. 203 (text) (New York); p. 119, illustrated in color (Paris) Berlin, Galerie Georg Norhelfer, Die Wurde und er Mut 'l'art moral' , April - May 1991, p. 219, illustrated in color Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 , May - December 1993, no. 102, p. 295, illustrated in color and p. 481 (text) New York, C & M Arts, American Works 1945-1975 , October - December 1997, n.p., illustrated in color New York, C & M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture 1964-1973 , October - December 2000, n.p., illustrated in color New York, C & M Arts, Naked Since 1950 , October - December 2001, no. 9, n.p. (text) New York, Mnuchin Gallery, De Kooning: Five Decades , April - June 2019, pp. 61, 87, illustrated in color

Literature

Roy Alexander, ed., “Prisoner of the Seraglio,” Time , 26 February 1965, p. 75, illustrated in color Thomas B. Hess, “De Kooning’s New Women,” ARTnews , Vol. 64, No. 1, March 1965, p. 37, illustrated Lucy R. Lippard, “Three Generations of Women: de Kooning’s First Retrospective,” Art International , Vol. IX, No. 8, 20 November 1965, p. 27, illustrated Thomas B. Hess, de Kooning: Recent Paintings , New York 1967, p. 44, illustrated Walter Darby Bannard, “Willem de Kooning’s Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art,” Artforum , Vol. 7, No. 8, April 1969, p. 48, illustrated and p. 49 (text) Gabriella Drudi, Willem de Kooning , Milan 1972, p. 36 (text) and p. 128, illustrated in color Harold Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning , New York 1974, pl. 148, n.p., illustrated Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and traveling), The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century , 1980-81, fig. 37, p. 52, illustrated Andre van Weesperkarspek, "De Kooning in het Stedelijk," Arts en Auto , No. 49, 11 June 1983, pp. 826-29 (text) Catherina Bauer, "Willem de Kooning: still Ar Bedrageri," Svenska Dagladet , 27 August 1983 (text) Roelie Meijer, "Weerzien met Willem de Kooning," De Gooi-en Eemlander , 18 May 1983 (text) Janneke Wesseling, "Expositie van Willem de Kooning in het Amsterdamse Stedelijk Museum: Uren bij het water," NRC Handelsblad , 20 May 1983 (text) Ed Wingen, "De Vrouw als Landscap, Het Lanschap als Vrow," Kunst Beeld , No. 7, May 1983, pp. 16-20 (text) David Rosand, "Willem de Kooning: An American" Dialogue , No. 67, January 1985, pp. 49-57 (text) Philippe Sollers, de Kooning, Vite , Vol. II, Turin 1988, no. 53, n.p., illustrated in color Richard Shiff, "The Gravity of Willem de Kooning's Twist," in: Exh. Cat., Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (and traveling), Willem de Kooning, 2001-02, fig. 8, p. 83, illustrated in color Alfred Mac Adam, "Willem de Kooning: C&M Arts," Art News 100, January 2001, p. 151 (text) Richard Shiff, "de Kooning's 'Twist,'" in: Barbara Wittmann, ed., Spuren Erzeugen: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren der Selbstaufzeichung , Berlin 2009, fig. 11, p. 164 (text) and p. 165, illustrated in color Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective , 2011, fig. 4, p. 346, illustrated (installed in New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 1967) Richard Shiff, "Moving," in: Exh. Cat., New York, The Pace Gallery, Willem de Kooning, The Figure: Movement and Gesture , 2011, fig. 7, p. 15, illustrated in color Richard Shiff, Between Sense and de Kooning , London 2011, no. 69, p. 178, illustrated in color and pp. 179-80 (text) Richard Shiff, "De Kooning: The Kick, The Twist, The Woman, The Rowboat," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art , No. 14, 5 September 2014, p. 15 (text) Tom McGlynn, "De Kooning: Five Decades," Brooklyn Rail , June 2019 (text) (online)

Catalog summary

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) Two Women signed (lower left) oil on paper mounted on canvas 60 ½ by 37 in. 153.7 by 94 cm. Executed in 1964. Provenance Joseph H. Hirshhorn III, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1964) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1982) Private Collection Private Collection, Düsseldorf PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired from the above) Acquired from the above in January 2001 by the present owner Exhibited Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art and Cambridge, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning , April - June 1965, no. 37, illustrated (traveled to Northampton only) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting , December 1965 - January 1966, no. 25, n.p. (text) New York, M. Knoedler & Co., De Kooning: Paintings and Drawings Since 1963 , November - December 1967 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Tate Gallery; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning , September 1968 - September 1969, no. 93, p. 129, illustrated and p. 164 (text) (New York); no. 81, n.p., illustrated (Amsterdam) Bonn, Rheinischen Landesmuseums; Rome, Galleria d'Arte Moderna; Warsaw, National Museum of Poland; and Baltimore Museum of Art and The Maryland Science Center, Two Hundred Years of American Painting , June 1976 - February 1977, no. 52, p. 52 (text) and p. 53, illustrated (Bonn); no. 53, n.p., illustrated (Rome); no. 48 (Baltimore) Akron Art Institute, Ten Paintings and Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum , July - September 1978 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, 1960-83 , May - October 1983, no. 5, p. 21 (text) and p. 28, illustrated in color New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; and Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture , December 1983 - September 1984, no. 216, p. 202, illustrated in color and p. 203 (text) (New York); p. 119, illustrated in color (Paris) Berlin, Galerie Georg Norhelfer, Die Wurde und er Mut 'l'art moral' , April - May 1991, p. 219, illustrated in color Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 , May - December 1993, no. 102, p. 295, illustrated in color and p. 481 (text) New York, C & M Arts, American Works 1945-1975 , October - December 1997, n.p., illustrated in color New York, C & M Arts, Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture 1964-1973 , October - December 2000, n.p., illustrated in color New York, C & M Arts, Naked Since 1950 , October - December 2001, no. 9, n.p. (text) New York, Mnuchin Gallery, De Kooning: Five Decades , April - June 2019, pp. 61, 87, illustrated in color Literature Roy Alexander, ed., “Prisoner of the Seraglio,” Time , 26 February 1965, p. 75, illustrated in color Thomas B. Hess, “De Kooning’s New Women,” ARTnews , Vol. 64, No. 1, March 1965, p. 37, illustrated Lucy R. Lippard, “Three Generations of Women: de Kooning’s First Retrospective,” Art International , Vol. IX, No. 8, 20 November 1965, p. 27, illustrated Thomas B. Hess, de Kooning: Recent Paintings , New York 1967, p. 44, illustrated Walter Darby Bannard, “Willem de Kooning’s Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art,” Artforum , Vol. 7, No. 8, April 1969, p. 48, illustrated and p. 49 (text) Gabriella Drudi, Willem de Kooning , Milan 1972, p. 36 (text) and p. 128, illustrated in color Harold Rosenberg, Willem de Kooning , New York 1974, pl. 148, n.p., illustrated Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and traveling), The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century , 1980-81, fig. 37, p. 52, illustrated Andre van Weesperkarspek, "De Kooning in het Stedelijk," Arts en Auto , No. 49, 11 June 1983, pp. 826-29 (text) Catherina Bauer, "Willem de Kooning: still Ar Bedrageri," Svenska Dagladet , 27 August 1983 (text) Roelie Meijer, "Weerzien met Willem de Kooning," De Gooi-en Eemlander , 18 May 1983 (text) Janneke Wesseling, "Expositie van Willem de Kooning in het Amsterdamse Stedelijk Museum: Uren bij het water," NRC Handelsblad , 20 May 1983 (text) Ed Wingen, "De Vrouw als Landscap, Het Lanschap als Vrow," Kunst Beeld , No. 7, May 1983, pp. 16-20 (text) David Rosand, "Willem de Kooning: An American" Dialogue , No. 67, January 1985, pp. 49-57 (text) Philippe Sollers, de Kooning, Vite , Vol. II, Turin 1988, no. 53, n.p., illustrated in color Richard Shiff, "The Gravity of Willem de Kooning's Twist," in: Exh. Cat., Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (and traveling), Willem de Kooning, 2001-02, fig. 8, p. 83, illustrated in color Alfred Mac Adam, "Willem de Kooning: C&M Arts," Art News 100, January 2001, p. 151 (text) Richard Shiff, "de Kooning's 'Twist,'" in: Barbara Wittmann, ed., Spuren Erzeugen: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren der Selbstaufzeichung , Berlin 2009, fig. 11, p. 164 (text) and p. 165, illustrated in color Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective , 2011, fig. 4, p. 346, illustrated (installed in New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 1967) Richard Shiff, "Moving," in: Exh. Cat., New York, The Pace Gallery, Willem de Kooning, The Figure: Movement and Gesture , 2011, fig. 7, p. 15, illustrated in color Richard Shiff, Between Sense and de Kooning , London 2011, no. 69, p. 178, illustrated in color and pp. 179-80 (text) Richard Shiff, "De Kooning: The Kick, The Twist, The Woman, The Rowboat," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art , No. 14, 5 September 2014, p. 15 (text) Tom McGlynn, "De Kooning: Five Decades," Brooklyn Rail , June 2019 (text) (online)