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ELAINE DE KOONING Bacchus #27-P.
Acrylic on plywood, 1982. 372x295 mm; 14 3/4x11 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic, lower right recto.
Ex-collection Gruenenbaum Gallery, Ltd., New York, with the label; private collection, Chicago.
During a visit to the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, in 1976, Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989, see lot 198) saw a 19th century statue of the Roman god of wine, Bacchus, rendered with a twisted, dynamic form. When she returned to Athens, Georgia, where she was teaching at the University of Georgia, she commenced a series of paintings based on the sculpture. It was her first time using acrylic, and over the course of seven years she worked on a series of dozens of Bacchus paintings and captured the excited commotion associated the Roman god through her colorful palette and quintessential gestural brushstrokes.
