Willem de Kooning - Police Gazette 1955
Police Gazette 1955
108x125cm oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas
Sold for: USD 63.5 million
Auction house: Private sale via Richard Gray
Sale date: 12 October 2006
Seller: David Geffen
Buyer: Steven A. Cohen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Police Gazette is a landscape painted on canvas using abstract elements, and colors such as yellow, green and red. It is a painting with simple geometric forms, creating a perfect contrast between the formal elements that compose the artwork. It was this painting that promoted Willem de Kooning amongst the most important abstract painters of the modern world.