Estate of the Artist, New York
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York 
Christie's, New York, 12 May 2010, Lot 239
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Baltimore Museum of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, August – September 1972 (another example exhibited)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings, October - November 1972, cat. no. 40
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, de Kooning: Drawings/Sculpture, March 1974 - June 1975, no. 137 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Willem de Kooning: Beelden Nen Lithos, March - April 1976, cat. no. b11, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Collection d'art I, Willem de Kooning, May - July 1976 (another example exhibited)
Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt, de Kooning: Plastik-Grafic, January - February 1977, cat. no. p11 (another example exhibited)
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Willem de Kooning: Sculptures, Lithographies, Peintures, March - April 1977, sc11 p. 3 (another example exhibited)
Grenoble, Musée de Peintures et de Sculptures, Willem de Kooning: Sculptures et Peintures, June –September 1977 (another example exhibited)
Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery; London, Serpentine Galleries, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings & Lithographs, October 1977 - January 1978, no. 11 (another example exhibited)
Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Willem de Kooning/Pittsburgh International Series, October 1979 - January 1980, cat. no. 115
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-81, May - July 1981, cat. no. 65, p. 21
New York, Xavier Fourçade, Inc., Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture, 1969 - 1981, May - June 1983
Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September - October 1983, no. 11, p. 55, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, December 1983 - September 1984, no. 267, p. 252, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Goslar, Das Mönchehause Museum, Exhibition on the Occasion of the Presentation of Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning, September - October 1984
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning Sculpture, May - June 1996, no. 11, p. 54, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery; New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Willem de Kooning: Drawings and Sculpture, October - December 1998, pl. 41, p. 117, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: A Retrospective, September 2011 - January 2012, cat. no. 158, p. 408, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is evidence of light wear to the patina and a light dust has settled in some of the crevices. There is a small spot of loss behind the figure's neck.
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