Untitled

Prints and Drawings

c. 1950

Willem de Kooning
American, born Netherlands, 1904-1997

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.

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Artist: Willem de Kooning
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1949–1951
Medium: Black enamel paint on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 48.5 × 65.1 cm (19 1/8 × 25 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1986.138

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