Study for "Woman VI"

c. 1952-53

Willem de Kooning
American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997

Status: On View, Regenstein Hall
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Willem de Kooning
Title: Study for "Woman VI"
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.: c. 1952–1953
Medium: Collage of charcoal and pastel on cut Italia Umbria paper with traces of oil on Italia Umbria paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower center, in graphite: "de Kooning"; inscribed upper left, in graphite: "19 [in circle]”; inscribed center left, in graphite: "10 [in circle]"
Dimensions: Pieced: 66 × 51 cm (26 × 20 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Gecht Family
Reference Number: 2015.254
Copyright: © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Drawings by Abstract Expressionist Painters, Feb. 21 – Mar. 26, 1975.
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Abstract Expressionist Art: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg, Oct. 11 – Nov. 25, 1979.
Newport Beach, Cal., Newport Harbor Art Museum, Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, July 15 – Sept. 18, 1988; also Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Oct. 12 – Dec. 31, 1988, and the Albright Knox Art Gallery, May 19 - July 9, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism: Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 2003 – Jan. 11, 2004, pp. 158–59, cat. 128 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, July 17 – Sept. 13, 2009, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Willem de Kooning Drawing”, June 14 - September 20, 2026, traveled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, October 9, 2026 - January 17, 2027, pp. 8, 26, 27, 64, 190, (ill.), pl. 76. cat. by Kevin Salatino, Mel Becker Solomon, et. al.

Sold by Harold Diamond to Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht, Chicago, 1976.

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