Willem de Kooning, Nathan Oliveira and George Miyasaki, University of California, Berkeley, 1960
Litho #2 (Waves #2)
1959
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Willem de Kooning, Nathan Oliveira and George Miyasaki, University of California, Berkeley, 1960
Litho #2 (Waves #2)
1959
Physical Qualities
Brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 1220 × 832 mm. (48 1/16 × 32 3/4 in.)
Image: 1092 × 788 mm. (43 × 31 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Tilles Foundation, New York; Women's Committee Acquisitions Endowment for Contemporary Prints and Photographs; and purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1996.79
self-published
Jan Howard, 'In the Spotlight,' 'BMA Today,' April 1997.
'Contemporary Prints and Multiples,' Christie's, New York, 11/7/1995, no. 702, 'Litho #2 (Waves #2)' sold for $90,500.00 'Contemporary Prints and Multiples, 'Christie's, New York, 11/19/1994, no. 503, 'Litho #2 (Waves #2)'. Lanier Graham, 'The Prints of Willem de Kooning A catalogue raisonne 1957-1971/I,' Paris: Baudoin Lebon, 1991, pp. 7-14, no. 3, ill. Lanier Graham, 'The Prints of Willem deKooning: An Illustrated Catalogue of His Editions, 1960-1971,' 'The Tamarind Papers,' Vol 11, 1988, pp. 10-12, no. 3, ill. p. 10. Riva Castleman, 'American Impressions Prints since Pollack,' NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, pp. 52-53, no. 36, ill. Clinton Adams, 'The Personality of Lithography, A Conversation with Nathan Oliveira,' 'The Tamarind Papers,' Vol 6, No. 1, Winter 1982-1983, pp. 4-9, 17. Jacqueline Brody, 'Confessions of an Art Investor...', 'The Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol V, No. 1, March-April 1974, pp. 1, 6, 7. Philip Larson and Peter Schjeldahl, 'deKooning drawings/sculptures,' NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1974, (unpaginated?), exh. cat. Riva Castleman, 'Prints of the Twentieth Century A History,' NY: The Museum of Modern Art, pp. 134-137, no. 115, ill. p. 135. Riva Castleman, 'Contemporary Prints,' NY: The Viking Press, pp. 66-67, ill. Una E. Johnson, 'American Prints and Printmakers,' NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., p. 191, no. 114, ill. Barry Walker, 'Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990,' NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., pp. 84-85. Lanier Graham, 'The Early Prints of de Kooning: The Artist and His Printers,' pp. 15-17 [unidentified photocopy]
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "de Kooning '60"