De kooning paintings

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A leading artist among the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning never believed that abstraction and representation were mutually exclusive. As he stated: “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.” Woman and Bicycle, one of a series of…

Willem de Kooning, Women, 1963 Oil on canvas Christies © Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2018 more

Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52. Oil and metallic paint on canvas. 6' 3 7/8" x 58" (192.7 x 147.3 cm). Purchase. 478.1953. © 2024 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting & Sculpture

With a history dating back to 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Collection includes over 31,000 works from antiquity to the present, encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, video art and installations, and textiles. The Museum’s collections of American decorative arts, German Expressionist prints and paintings, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960 are among the nation’s finest.

Peter Lanyon Exhibitions: The Treasure House Fair, 22 - 26 Jun 2023; Post-War British Art on Vortic, 2 - 30 Apr 2021; Frieze Masters, 4 - 7 Oct 2018; Pavilion of Art & Design, London, 10 - 14 Oct 2012; London Art Fair 2012, 18 - 22 Jan 2012

Willem de Kooning. Untitled III. 1982. Oil on canvas. 6' 8" x 70" (203.2 x 177.8 cm). Gift of UBS. 98.2002. © 2024 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting & Sculpture

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) February 1957 oil on canvas 200.7 x 175.3 cm

Woman in a Rowboat

Willem de Kooning is widely known for his masterful yet highly idiosyncratic working methods. Less recognized is the extent to which he employed unconventional as well as traditional materials in his paintings to achieve specific visual effects.