![]() ![]() Indeed, “his paintings resulted from a daring elision of abstract and figurative imagery that few of his contemporaries could fathom,” Zilczer writes. ![]() Though he had arrived in New York as a 22-year-old stowaway in 1926, by 1951, as author Judith Zilczer writes in her book, A Way of Living: the Art of de Kooning, “he had already created an impressive array of controversial and compelling masterworks that have become touchstones for any account of twentieth-century art.”Īnd yet de Kooning’s place among the vanguard of New York’s abstract painters wasn’t something the artist accepted without question. On the anniversary of the Dutch abstract expressionist's birth, we tell the tale behind one of his infamous worksīy the middle of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning had pretty much made it. Woman I, (1950–2), oil, enamel and charcoal on canvas, 192.7 x 147.3 cm (75 x 58 in), The Museum of Modern Art, New York Artwork by Willem de Kooning © 2014 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York The strange story behind Willem de Kooning’s Woman I ![]()
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