Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of De Kooning oils held at the famed Martha Jackson Gallery in New York from November 9-December 3, 1955. Small 8vo (4.75” x 6.75”), stapled pictorial wrappers, 12 unnumbered pages, illustrations. With an introduction by Kenneth B. Sawyer. An important and visually striking mid-century exhibition catalog documenting Willem De Kooning at the moment his controversial and transformative Woman paintings were achieving canonical status—two years after the landmark 1953 Sidney Janis Woman exhibtion, and proximate to his inclusion in the 1954 Venice Biennale. The checklist includes major works from the celebrated Woman cycle, among them Woman-Green, Woman-Ochre, Woman-Pink, Two Women, Marilyn Monroe, and related abstractions and drawings. The wrappers reproduce Woman-Ochre in color, while the interior includes b/w reproductions of two paintings and one drawing together with Sawyer’s substantial essay situating De Kooning within the lineage of European modernism and postwar American abstraction. A scarce and desirable piece of Abstract Expressionist gallery ephemera. Previously folded in half. Bumping and rubbing to extremities, with creasing to rear wrapper. Contents clean.
Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of De Kooning oils held at the famed Martha Jackson Gallery in New York from November 9-December 3, 1955. Small 8vo (4.75” x 6.75”), stapled pictorial wrappers, 12 unnumbered pages, illustrations. With an introduction by Kenneth B. Sawyer. An important and visually striking mid-century exhibition catalog documenting Willem De Kooning at the moment his controversial and transformative Woman paintings were achieving canonical status—two years after the landmark 1953 Sidney Janis Woman exhibtion, and proximate to his inclusion in the 1954 Venice Biennale. The checklist includes major works from the celebrated Woman cycle, among them Woman-Green, Woman-Ochre, Woman-Pink, Two Women, Marilyn Monroe, and related abstractions and drawings. The wrappers reproduce Woman-Ochre in color, while the interior includes b/w reproductions of two paintings and one drawing together with Sawyer’s substantial essay situating De Kooning within the lineage of European modernism and postwar American abstraction. A scarce and desirable piece of Abstract Expressionist gallery ephemera. Previously folded in half. Bumping and rubbing to extremities, with creasing to rear wrapper. Contents clean.
