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<p>Born in Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning entered the United States as a stowaway on a freighter in 1926. He quickly made his way to New York, where he met Arshile Gorky, one of his closest friends. The artist’s first one-man show, held in a gallery in New York in 1948, featured black-and-white enamel compositions, to which the present example is related. By the 1950s, de Kooning was an acknowledged leader of Abstract Expressionism in America.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1950
- Medium
- Enamel on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 48.5 × 65.1 cm (19 1/8 × 25 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Willem de Kooning
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Painting
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- Willem de Kooning
- Year
- 1950
- Medium
- Enamel on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 48.5 × 65.1 cm (19 1/8 × 25 11/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1950-143674
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified