Study for "Seated Man" (Self-Portrait)

c. 1938-39

Willem de Kooning
American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997

Status: On View, Regenstein Hall
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Willem de Kooning
Title: Study for "Seated Man" (Self-Portrait)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1938–1939
Medium: Graphite pencil (recto and verso) on wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in graphite: “de Kooning”
Dimensions: 35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 1/16 × 11 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.3034

E. Denby and R. Burckhardt, “My Friend de Kooning,” ARTnews Annual (1964), p. 82 (ill.).
T. B. Hess, Willem de Kooning: Drawings (Greenwich, 1972), pp. 22 and 74, no. 9.
S. Yard, Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-Six Years in New York, 1927–1952 (New York and London, 1986), n.p., no. 73 (ill.).

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning Retrospective: Drawings 1936–1963, Feb. 1964, n.p. (ill.).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh International Series: Willem de Kooning, Oct. 1979–Jan. 1980, cat. 73.
New York, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, The Artist’s Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings, 1937 to 1954, Jan.–Mar. 2002, cat. 6 (ill.).

The artist to Daniel Brustlein (1904–1996) and Janice Biala Brustlein (1903–2000), Paris and New York, c. 1941; by descent, 2000; sold through Christie’s, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, October 9, 2023.

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