Nov 17, 2022 - Sale 2622

Sale 2622 - Lot 14

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
WILLEM DE KOONING
The Devil at the Keyboard.

Color lithograph on cream wove Beckett paper, 1976. 780x635 mm; 30 3/4x25inches (sheet), full margins. The deluxe edition of 75, before letters. Signed and numbered 11/75 in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Rainbow Art Foundation, New York. A good impression of this scarce lithograph with strong colors.

De Kooning (1904-1997) produced this work, an image of Thelonius Monk, for the Rainbow Art Foundation, New York, a group that was started by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Bill Caldwell and de Kooning himself, to assist young, underprivileged artists.