Representative work by Willem de Kooning
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Artist

Willem de Kooning

1904–1997 · Dutch-born American · Based in New York & East Hampton, New York

  • Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam (1924)
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Painting
  • Sculpture

Willem de Kooning developed a restless painting language that refused to choose between abstraction and the figure. His Women paintings, urban abstractions and later landscapes repeatedly scrape, revise and reopen the image.

Painting; drawing; sculpture

Gallery Representation

Objects

Artist Films

Major Works

  • Excavation →
  • Woman I
  • Woman and Bicycle
  • Gotham News
  • Interchange
  • Door to the River
  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point
  • Montauk Highway
  • Whose Name Was Writ in Water
  • Untitled XVIII

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Interviews & Writing

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