Untitled
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York)
- Date: ca. 1946
- Medium: Oil and charcoal on Masonite
- Dimensions: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
- Object Number: 2006.32.32
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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