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1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Willem De Kooning with his characteristic 'De Kooning' on the half-title page. A bright, fresh copy concentrating on his early work, black and white abstractions, the women, the landscapes, sculpture and late paintings, in black cloth, white titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper (light use at the spine), with the artist's influential Woman V (1952-53) on the front cover. Small 4to. 136 pp. Stunning colour and black and white plates and illustrations throughout. With Chronology, Exhibitions, Public Collections, a Selected Bibliography and, 'The Artist's Statements', with excerpts from, What Abstract Art Means To Me, The Renaissance And Order, Content Is A Glimpse and an Interview with Harold Rosenberg. A befitting homage to the work of the Dutch American master of Abstract Expressionism. A volume in the Modern Masters Series. Seller Inventory # 30630
Title: WILLEM DE KOONING. Signed
Publisher: Abbeville Press, (1983), New York
Publication Date: 1983
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover with price-clipped dustjacket, unpaginated; good condition; dj has light rubbing and some scattered stains; light brown spotting to outer pages edges and first and last page at gutter; this copy signed by de Kooning in pencil on limitation page explaining 100 copies of the book are signed and numbered; this copy not numbered; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # WiDeWa750
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Original Silver Prints. 16" x 20" B&W Photo. Photographed 1985, Signed by Felver 1989.From the Collection of Pasquale Iannetti. Seller Inventory # 64-0014
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First edition. 8vo (23.3cm). Unpaginated, [16] pages, black and white illustrations. Photo-illustrated wrappers. Bilingual text in English and Italian. Signed by de Kooning on the half-title and inscribed:" "To dear Fritz with love / de Kooning." Catalogue for de Kooning's exhibit of thirty-seven drawings (16 reproduced here) shown for the first time in Europe at the 12th Festival dei Due Mondi, with a bilingual introduction as well as de Kooning's essay "What Abstract Art Means to Me," reprinted from the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin (195, talk delivered at the "What is Abstract Art?" symposium, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 5, 1951). This Spoleto exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Knoedler Gallery, New York. All of the drawings were executed in 1968-69. Similar inscriptions "to Fritz" found in auction records and the trade suggest these were all to Fritz Bultman, though an unpublished de Kooning proof [Untitled (Bather 2)] catalogued at Bonham's in May 2019 inscribed "to Fritz and Matilda." may suggest otherwise (Bultman's wife was the stained-glass artist, model, and dancer Jeanne Lawson Bultman). An affectionate inscription nonetheless on a somewhat uncommon exhibition catalogue. Covers edgeworn; sparse foxing to front panel with heavier to rear panel and top page edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Seller Inventory # 410614