18 Works from the Bachman Collection (1606) June 4, 2018 EDT Lot 4 Estimate: $250000 - $400000 (plus Buyer's Premium) Willem de Kooning (American/Dutch, 1904-1997) Head #3 1973, signed on the reverse and numbered 8/12 (there were also 3 artist's proofs), and with the Modern Art Foundry, New York stamp at edge of base. Bronze with black patina. height (with base): 19 in. (48.3cm)width (with base): 11 11/16 in. (29.7cm)depth (with base): 11 3/8 in. (28.9cm) Provenance: The Artist. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, New York. The Estate of Lee & Gilbert Bachman, Atlanta, Georgia & Boca Raton, Florida (acquired directly from the above in 1986). EXHIBITED: "De Kooning: Major Paintings and Sculpture," Pollock Gallery, Toronto, October - November, 1974 (another cast exhibited). Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Collector-Gallery VIII, San Antonio, Texas, November - December 1974 (another cast exhibited). "De Kooning: Drawings/Sculptures," a traveling exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, March, 1974 - June, 1975, no. 148 (another cast exhibited). "Thirty-Fourth Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, May - June, 1975 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue n.p.). "Willem de Kooning," a traveling exhibition: Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie des Arts, Paris, France, September - November 1975, no. 43 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "De Kooning: New Works - Paintings and Sculptures," Fourcade, Droll, Inc., New York, October - December, 1975 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue n.p.). "De Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture: 1967-1975," Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, December, 1975 - February, 1976, no. 27 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Matrix 15 (A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art): Willem de Kooning," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, December, 1975 - January, 1976. "De Kooning: New Painting and Sculpture," Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle, Washington, February - March, 1976 (another cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning," Collection de'Art I, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May - July, 1976. "Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures," James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, May - June 1976, no. 58 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Paintings and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, June - July 1976. "De Kooning: New Paintings: 1976," Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, October - November, 1976 (another cast exhibited). "De Kooning: Lithographs, Paintings and Sculptures," University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, October - November, 1976, no. 22 (this example exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Willem de Kooning: Beelden en lithis," a traveling exhibition: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Wilhelm- Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt, Duisburg, Germany; Cabinet des estampes, Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland; Musée des Peintures et des Sculptures, Grenoble, France, March, 1976 - September, 1977, no. B22 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "De Kooning: Recent Works," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, January - March, 1977 (another cast exhibited). "Works on Paper, Small Format, Object: Duchamp to Heizer," Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, February - March, 1977 (another cast exhibited). Willem de Kooning: peintures et sculptures recentes," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France, September - October, 1977 (another cast exhibited). "The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs," Serpentine Gallery, London and Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, October, 1977 - January, 1978, no. 22 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Willem de Kooning in East Hampton," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February - April 1978, no. 93 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Large Scale Small Scale," Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, April - June, 1978 (another example exhibited). "Fairfield Arts Festival, 15th Annual Fairfield Arts Festival: Artist of the Year," Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, Connecticut, June, 1978 (another cast exhibited). "De Kooning 1969-78," a traveling exhibition: University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, Iowa; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 1978 - April, 1979, no. 35 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 46). "Willem de Kooning: New Painting, 1978-1979," Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, November, 1979 (another cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October, 1979 - January, 1980, no. 124 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 124). "Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings," Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, Washington, January - March, 1980 (another cast exhibited). "Perceiving Modern Sculpture," Grey Art Gallery and Studies Center, New York University, New York, July - August, 1980, p. 31 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Willem de Kooning: Gemlde, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen," Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany, November - December, 1980 (this cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981," Guild Hall, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, May - July, 1981 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue n.p.). "Willem de Kooning: New Paintings 1951-1981," Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, May - July, 1981 (another cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, 1960-1983," a traveling exhibition: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 11 - July 3, 1983; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, July 15 - September 4, 1983; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, September 17 - October 30, 1983, no. 70 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 111). "Willem de Kooning: The Complete Sculpture," Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, May - June, 1983 (another cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen," Joseph-Haubrich- Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany, September - October 1983, no. 20 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 72). "Willem de Kooning: Drawing-Painting-Sculpture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany; Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, December, 1983 - August, 1984, no. 276 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 260). "De Kooning," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France; Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany, June - October, 1984 (another cast exhibited). "Exhibition on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Kaiserring to Willem de Kooning," Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany, September - October, 1984 (another cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture 1979-1983," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, United Kingdom, November, 1984 - January, 1985, no. 18 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). "Modern Masters and The Figure: Picasso-de Kooning," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, September - November, 1993 (another cast exhibited). "Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," a traveling exhibition: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Fundacio "la Caixa," Centre Cultural, Barcelona, Spain; High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, October, 1993 - May, 1995, no. 47 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 144). "Willem de Kooning in Seattle: Selected Works from 1943- 1985 in Public and Private Collections," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, November, 1995 - March, 1996 (another example exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue n.p.). "Visage: Paintings and the Human Face in 20th Century Art," a traveling exhibition: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, January - March, 2000, no. 87 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 141). "Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture, 1964- 1973," C & M Art, New York, October - December, 2000, no. 14 (another cast exhibited and illustrated). "About Faces," C & A Art, New York, January - March, 2001 (another cast exhibited). "Tot zo ver," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April - December, 2003 (another cast exhibited). "Restos de Mascaras," Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain, May - July, 2006 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue n.p.). "My Private Passion," Sammlung Hubert Looser, Vienna, Austria, April - July, 2012, no. 11 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue pp. 27 and 124). "Fun House," Richard Gray Gallery, New York, March - April 2013 (another cast exhibited). "De Kooning Sculptures, 1972 - 1974," Galerie Skarstedt,