Untitled
Willem de Kooning American, born The Netherlands
Not on view
Like Matisse, de Kooning wanted to leave the traces of earlier ideas on his pictures, and since he was constantly revising his work, there was always much to see. As often as not, de Kooning would scrape the day’s work off at the end of a session, starting anew the next day until he was sufficiently satisfied. The subject of this work is the process of painting, though both landscape forms and a reclining female figure can be made out.
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