Two Women
After flirting with near-abstraction in 1949 and 1950, de Kooning returned to his favorite motif, the female figure. This small painting was made in the summer of 1953, when the artist worked at the East Hampton house of the dealers Ileana Sonnabend and Leo Castelli. He inscribed it to Muriel and Jay Steinberg.
Artwork Details
- Title: Two Women
- Artist: Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York)
- Date: 1953
- Medium: Oil paint, enamel and charcoal on paper
- Dimensions: 21 7/8 in. × 30 in. (55.6 × 76.2 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
- Object Number: 2006.32.33
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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