Willem De Kooning: Disegni [Signed & Inscribed By De Kooning] Willem De Kooning; Giovanni Carandente [Ed.]; W.F. Mccormick [Trans.] Art,First Editions,Signed

Spoleto: Panetto & Petrelli, 1969. First Edition. Signed by de Kooning on half title with inscription "to dear Fritz with love / de Kooning." Octavo (23.3cm); unpaginated, [16]pp black and white illus. Photo-illustrated wraps. Bilingual text in English and Italian. Covers edgeworn; sparse foxing to front panel with heavier to rear panel and top page edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Catalogue for de Kooning's exhibit of thirty-seven drawings (16 reproduced here) shown for the first time in Europe at the 12th Festival dei Due Mondi, with a bilingual introduction as well as de Kooning's essay "What Abstract Art Means to Me," reprinted from the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin (1951). Similar inscriptions "to Fritz" found in the auction record and the trade suggest these were all to Fritz Bultman, though an unpublished de Kooning proof [Untitled (Bather 2)] catalogued at Bonham's in May 2019 inscribed "to Fritz and Matilda." may suggest otherwise (Bultman's wife was the stained-glass artist, model, and dancer Jeanne Lawson Bultman). An affectionate inscription nonetheless on a somewhat uncommon exhibition catalogue.