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Provenance

Wayne Anderson, Boston Christie's New York, 6 May 1987, lot 119 Private Collection, Geneva Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis Christie's New York, 2 May 1989, lot 28 Private Collection, New York Fayt Gallery, Belgium Countess Viviane de Witt, Paris (acquired from the above in 1994) Sotheby's Paris, 5 June 2013, lot 11 (consigned by the above) Herbert Kasper, New York (acquired from the above) Christie's New York, 12 November 2021, lot 235 (consigned by the above) Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations , January - August 1976, no. 105, p. 69 Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series , October 1979 - January 1980, no. 84, p. 114, illustrated New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning - Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture , December 1983 - September 1984, p. 58, no. 53, illustrated New York, Pace Gallery, De Kooning / Dubuffet: The Women, November 1990 - January 1991, no. 15, illustrated

Catalog summary

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart Willem de Kooning 1904 - 1997 Five Women signed (lower right) graphite on paper 17 ½ by 28 ½ in. 44.5 by 72.4 cm. Executed in 1952. Provenance Wayne Anderson, Boston Christie's New York, 6 May 1987, lot 119 Private Collection, Geneva Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis Christie's New York, 2 May 1989, lot 28 Private Collection, New York Fayt Gallery, Belgium Countess Viviane de Witt, Paris (acquired from the above in 1994) Sotheby's Paris, 5 June 2013, lot 11 (consigned by the above) Herbert Kasper, New York (acquired from the above) Christie's New York, 12 November 2021, lot 235 (consigned by the above) Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Exhibited New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations , January - August 1976, no. 105, p. 69 Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series , October 1979 - January 1980, no. 84, p. 114, illustrated New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning - Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture , December 1983 - September 1984, p. 58, no. 53, illustrated New York, Pace Gallery, De Kooning / Dubuffet: The Women, November 1990 - January 1991, no. 15, illustrated