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WILLEM DE KOONING
Untitled
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Color screenprint on Arches wove paper, 1972. 855x582 mm; 33
3
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4
x23 inches, full margins.
Signed and numbered 24/75 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ives-Sillman, New Haven,
with the blind stamp lower right. Published by theYale University Press, New Haven. A very
good impression of this scarce print.
[6,000/9,000]
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The following prints are each ex-collection the artist Tully Filmus (1903-1998), and were gifts directly
from de Kooning. Filmus and de Kooning, both emigré artists, shared a studio in New York during
the early 1930s and remained friends for decades following. Both artists had worked together at the
design firm of Eastman Brothers, New York, in the late 1920s, shortly after de Kooning's 1926
immigration to the United States (initially settling in Hoboken, NJ) and his 1927 move to Manhattan
(Filmus had arrived in the United States with his family, via Moldova, in 1903). de Kooning, Filmus
and fellow artist Anton Refregier shared a summer rental house in Woodstock, New York in 1930,
along with de Kooning's then girlfriend Virginia “Nini” Diaz.