Artist: Willem de Kooning (Dutch/American, 1904 - 1997). Title: "Nude Composition". Medium: Ink and wash drawing on paper. Date: Composed 1940s. Dimensions: Overall size: 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (267 x 343 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed lower left. Mead Bond watermarked cream wove paper. Condition: overall very good, image fine; some toning; minor glue residue; ink remains verso; minor handling marks. Provenance: Private collection, Boston. Comment(s): Willem De Kooning, one of the recognized masters of Abstract Expressionism, was a founder of the New York School of action painting. "Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure," De Kooning once said. "I always seem to be wrapped up in the melodrama of vulgarity." Image copyright © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29281-2-14000]