New York’s Whitney Museum is selling a Willem de Kooning painting at Christie’s next week, just three years after it formally received the work as a gift from the family of one of its former presidents.

Yellow River (1958), a large abstract picture dominated by hefty sweeps of blue and yellow, has an estimate of $12 million to $18 million and will appear in Christie’s 20th century evening sale on November 17. The painting is being sold to benefit the museum’s collection, according to Artnet News, which first reported the story and the auction house’s catalog.