signed 'de Kooning' on the stretcher oil on canvas 223.5 x 195.6 cm (88 x 77 in.) Painted in 1984. provenance The Artist Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003. literature Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995, fig. 23, p. 27 (illustrated) Willem de Kooning: Die Späten Gemälde, Die 80er Jahre, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, fig. 23, p. 31 (illustrated) Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings 1981 – 1987, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, fig. 23, p. 27 (illustrated) Willem de Kooning, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, 2003, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated)