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WILLEM DE KOONING The Devil at the Keyboard.
Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache on cream wove Arches paper, 1976. 910x635 mm; 35 3/4x25 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by The Rainbow Foundation, New York. Ex-collection Edward Clark, New York, acquired directly from the artist; the Getrude Stein Gallery, New York; private collection, New York.
De Kooning produced this work, an image of Thelonius Monk, for the Rainbow Art Foundation, a group that was started by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Bill Caldwell and De Kooning himself, to assist young, underpriviliged artists.
