1971
Medium: Lithograph
Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches
Frame size: 37 7/8 x 30 1/8 inches
Printer: Hollanders Workshop, New York
Publisher: Hollanders Workshop and Fourcade, New York
Edition size: 60, plus proofs
Catalogue Raisonné: Graham 27
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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Between 1970 to 1971, Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) worked together with printer Irwin Hollander and his partner Fred Genis to produce three groups of prints. Impressions from the first group of 20, including “The Preacher”, were purchased by de Kooning’s lawyer and his son, then subsequently gifted to The Museum of Modern Art in New York. They were exhibited in December 1971 and received a resounding positive reception. Reflecting the artist’s newfound intrigue for the relational possibilities between abstract expressionism and printmaking, de Kooning’s prints symbolize the coexistence between representation and non-representation, form and formlessness.
