Jack Pollock Gallery, Toronto
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1970

Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August - September 1972 (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, De Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures, March 1974 - June 1975 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Willem de Kooning: beelden en litho's, March - April 1976, cat. no. D6, n.p. (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Collection d'Art, Willem de Kooning, May - June 1976, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Plastik-Grafik de Kooning, January - February 1977, cat. no. 6, n.p. (another example exhibited)
Grenoble, Museé d'art et d'histoire; Geneva, Museé de peinture et de sculpture, Willem de Kooning: Sculptures, Lithographies, Peintures, Cabinet des estampes, March - September 1977, cat. no. SC6, p. 2, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977 - January 1978, cat. no. 6, n.p. (another example exhibited)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, February - April 1978, cat. no. 85, p. 116, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979 - January 1980, cat. no. 110 (another example exhibited)
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning Works from 1951-1981, May - July 1981, cat. no. 63, p. 21 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, September - October 1983, cat. no. 6, p. 44, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Kunst, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983 - May 1984, cat. no. 262, p. 250, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, May - June 1996, cat. no. 6, pp. 40 and 53, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, De Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011 - January 2012, cat. no. 153, p. 406, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Harold Rosenberg, ed., Willem de Kooning, New York, 1974, pl. 201, illustrated
Harry Gaugh, ed., Willem de Kooning, New York, 1983, cat. no. 115, p. 134, illustrated
Yoshiyuki Fuji, ed., Willem de Kooning, Tokyo, 1993, pl. 57, illustrated in color
Barbara Hess, ed., Willem de Kooning, Cologne, 2004, p. 68, illustrated in color

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is some evidence of rubbing to the patina on the reverse of the work and scattered dust accretions in the crevices. There are two localized spots of oxidation on the figure's legs, which are visible under close inspection.
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