Nov 16, 2023 - Sale 2653

Sale 2653 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WILLEM DE KOONING
The Devil at the Keyboard.

Color lithograph on cream wove Beckett paper, 1976. 780x635 mm; 30 3/4x25inches (sheet), full margins. Artist's proof from the deluxe edition of 75, before letters. Signed and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower right. Published by the Rainbow Art Foundation, New York. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph with strong colors.

De Kooning (1904-1997) produced this work, an image of Thelonius Monk at the piano, 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.