About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Willem de Kooning
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Title
- Untitled
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1949–1951
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Medium
- Black enamel paint on off-white wove paper
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Dimensions
- 48.5 × 65.1 cm (19 1/8 × 25 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Katharine Kuh
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Reference Number
- 1986.138
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Copyright
- © 2018 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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