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Willem de Kooning | |||
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1904 in Rotterdam, Netherlands Died 1997 in New York, NY |
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| Untitled (Woman), 1971 | ||||
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media on newsprint 45 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 1995.23 |
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| Alongside Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, de Kooning was one of the leading figures in the gestural faction of Abstract Expressionism. His work, more than the others, balances figuration with abstraction, which he achieves by working and reworking his gestural passages of richly colored paint. De Kooning studied the female figure on and off throughout his career, and favored pinks, yellows, and blues, as demonstrated in the painting above. |
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