Friday 2 December 2022

Willem de Kooning - part 2

Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.

In the years after World War II, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or "action painting", and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Nell Blaine, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart. De Kooning's retrospective held at MoMA in 2011–2012 made him one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.

For a more comprehensive biography of de Kooning, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 10-part series on the works of Willem de Kooning: 


1948 Night
oil on board 55.9 x 73 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota 
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 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Painting
enamel and oil on canvas 108.3 x 142.5 cm
Moma, New York Willem de Kooning
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 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Secretary
oil and charcoal on paper mounted on fibreboard 62 x 92 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Untitled
oil on paper 60 x 54.9 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
 © 2008 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Woman
oil and enamel on fibreboard 136.1 x 113.2 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948-49 Untitled
oil and enamel on paper, mounted on composition board
92.1 x 123.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2018 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1948 Untitled Study (Women)
oil, crayon and graphite on paper 53.3 x 81.6 cm
The Frances Lehman Loeb Centre, Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1949 Attic
oil, enamel, and newspaper transfer on canvas 157.1 x 205.7 cm
MoMA, New York
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Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1949 Figure
oil on cardboard 46.7 x 36.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1949-50 Abstraction
mixed media on board 37 x 46.4 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1949-50 Untitled
29.8 x 22.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1949-50 Untitled
enamel on paper 48 x 64.9 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1949-50 Woman
enamel and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas
 59.8 x 41.4 cm
MoMA, New York
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Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1949 Abstraction
oil, enamel and charcoal on card laid down on composition board 61.9 x 82.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1949 Landscape, Abstract
oil on paper 48.9 x 64.9 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
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 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1949 Untitled
pencil and Sapolin enamel on paper 52.4 x 45.7 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1949 Untitled
pencil, charcoal and pastel on board 36.8 x 42.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950 Boudoir
oil, enamel and charcoal on paper 33 x 53 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950 Excavation
oil on canvas 205.7 x 254.6 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2018 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950 Untitled
enamel on paper mounted on paperboard 55.9 x 76.3 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950 Woman
oil on masonite and paper 93 x 62.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950-51 Black and White Abstraction
Sapolin enamel on paper mounted on canvas 54 x 76.8 cm
 Collection Jasper Johns
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950-51 Woman I
oil and metallic paint on canvas 192.7 x 147.3 cm
MoMA, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1950-51 Black and White Abstraction
Sapolin enamel on paper 55.9 x 71.1 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1950 Untitled (Woman)
graphite and traces of oil on paper 32.7 x 28.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1950 Untitled
black enamel paint on off-white wove paper 48.5 x 65.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
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 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1950 Untitled
pastel and charcoal on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1951 Boudoir
oil on board 70.8 x 85 cm
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1951 Figure and Landscape No. 2
oil and pencil on paper, mounted on fibreboard
83.6 x 39.2 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1951 Itinerant Chapel
double-sided enamel and oil on paper 55.3 x 76.2 cm
 © The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1951 Seated Woman
oil, ink, crayon and graphite on Masonite 50.8 x 35.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1951 Untitled
charcoal on vellum 55.9 x 76.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1951-52 Woman
oil and pencil on paperboard 65.4 x 50.2 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1951 Figure in Landscape 1
 oil and enamel on board mounted on fibreboard
62.3 x 36.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1951 Woman
graphite, charcoal, pastel and crayon on paper 31.4 x 24.1 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Five Women
graphite on paper 44.5 x 72.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Seated Woman
pencil, pastel, and oil on two sheets of paper 30.8 x 24.2 cm
MoMA, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Study for "Woman VI"
pastel, charcoal, and pencil on tracing paper 55.2 x 47 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Study for Woman VI
collage composed of charcoal and pastel on cut-and-pasted ivory wove papers 66 x 51 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Two Women’s Torsos
pastel and charcoal on ivory wove paper 47.9 x 61 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Woman
graphite on paper 41 x 33.3 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Woman II
oil on canvas 149.9 x 109.3 cm
MoMA, New York Willem de Kooning
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952 Yellow Woman
oil, tempera, charcoal and graphite on paper 22.2 x 15.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1952-54 The Wave
oil on fibreboard 121.9 x 121.9 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952-53 Woman and Bicycle
oil, enamel and charcoal on linen 194.3 x 124.8 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952-53 Woman IV
oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas 149.8 x 117.4 cm
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1952-53 Woman V
oil and charcoal on canvas 154.5 x 114.5 cm
National Gallery of Australia
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation
Licensed by ARS & VISCOPY, Australia

c1952-53 Woman
pastel on paper mounted on canvas 59.7 x 47 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1952 Woman
pastel, graphite, and charcoal on paper 36.5 x 30.8 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Woman
oil and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas
64.9 x 49.8 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Woman VI
oil and enamel on canvas 173.9 x 148.5 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953-54 Seated Woman
pencil on paper 35.6 x 30.5 cm
MoMA, New York Willem de Kooning
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1953 Untitled (Woman)
graphite and pastel on paper 60 x 47 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1953 Woman with Glasses
pastel and graphite on vellum 40.6 x 48.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1954 Marilyn Monroe
oil on canvas 127 x 76.2 cm
Collection Neuberger Museum of Art
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1954 Two Women in the Country
oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas 117.1 x 103.5 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1954 Untitled (Torso)
ink on paper 60.9 x 48.2 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1954 Untitled
charcoal on paper laid on canvas 49.5 x 61.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


Wednesday 30 November 2022

Willem de Kooning - part 1

If Jackson Pollock was the public face of the New York avant-garde, Willem de Kooning could be described as an artist’s artist, who was perceived by many of his peers as its leader. He was born in Rotterdam, where he grew up in an impoverished household and attended the Rotterdam Academy, training in fine and commercial arts. In 1926, the adventurous young artist stowed away on a ship bound for Argentina. While the ship was docked in Virginia, de Kooning slipped off, skirted immigration, and made his way to New Jersey—and so began the rest of his life.

In New Jersey, de Kooning found work as a house painter. Large brushes and fluid paints were the tools of this trade, ones that he would continue to utilise throughout his artistic career. His dual foundations in drawing and craftsmanship underlay all of his work, even his most abstract paintings.

De Kooning’s next stop was New York, where he forged his artistic career. The Jazz Age was in full swing when he moved to the city, and he quickly fell under the sway of the lyrical freedom of jazz and the abstract art made by other artists under its influence. New York also brought him into contact with the work of Henri Matisse and with contemporaries including John Graham and Arshile Gorky, with whom he developed a particularly close and inspiring friendship.

In 1929, the Great Depression brought the Jazz Age to a crashing end. As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) program, in the 1930s de Kooning was commissioned to design public murals; he worked under Fernand Léger, who proved to be an important influence. Though his studies for the murals were never realised, they were among his first abstractions, and the experience of working on this project spurred him to pursue art making full-time.

By the 1940s, de Kooning had gained prominence as an artist. Over the course of a career lasting nearly seven decades, he would work through a wide array of styles, eventually cementing himself as a crucial link from New York School painting to European modernism. Physical labor and countless revisions were constants in his work, which ranged from abstraction to figuration, often merging the two. “I never was interested in how to make a good painting…,” he once said. “I didn’t work on it with the idea of perfection, but to see how far one could go…” The female figure was an especially fertile subject for the artist. His paintings of women were among his most controversial works during his lifetime and continue to be debated today

Karen Kedmey, for Moma Exhibition 2017


This is part 1 of a 10-part series on the works of Willem de Kooning:


c1916 Untitled (Still LIfe)
oil on paperboard 34.3 x 38.4 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1921 Still Life (Bowl, Pitcher and Jug)
conté crayon and charcoal on paper 47 x 61.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1924 Portrait of Renée
oil, charcoal and conté crayon on canvas 56.5 x 46.3 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1924 Untitled (Flower Sellers)
conté crayon and watercolour on paper 34.9 x 26.3 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1925 The Kiss
graphite on paper 48.2 x 33 cm
Allan Stone Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1928 Untitled
oil on canvas 40.9 x 51.1 cm
Allan Stone Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1931 Untitled Abstraction
oil on canvas 60.6 x 83.8 cm
Location unknown
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1934 Untitled
oil on canvas laid down on panel 91.4 x 114.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1936 Study for the Williamsburg Project
gouache over pencil on paper 23.7 x 36.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1937 Untitled (Study for World's Fair Mural "Medicine")
graphite on paper 25.1 x 30 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1937 Untitled 
opaque watercolour and pencil on paper 22.4 x 39.7 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1937 Untitled
gouache and graphite on paper 14 x 19.1 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1938 Two Standing Men
oil and charcoal on canvas 154.9 x 114.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1938 Untitled
medium? 10.1 x 17.7 cm
Allan Stone Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1938-42 Study of a Woman's Head
pencil on paper 23.5 x 17.8 cm
Collection Chuck Close
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Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1938 Composition
oil and graphite on paper 13.7 x 22.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1938 Pink Landscape
oil on composition board 63.5 x 94.3 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1938 Reclining Nude (Portrait of Juliet Browner)
pencil on paper 26 x 32.4 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1938 Untitled (Harold Rosenberg)
pencil on paper 22.9 x 18.4 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1938 Untitled
Casein on paper mounted on cardboard 18 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1939 Elegy
oil and charcoal on composition board 102.2 x 121.6 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1939 Untitled (Abstract Composition)
 graphite on paper 26.3 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1939 Untitled (Still Life)
double-sided oil and graphite on board 28.6 x 21 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1939-40 Abstract
oil on canvas 94.6 x 87 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1939 Seated Man
oil and charcoal on canvas 97.1 x 86.9 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1940 Untitled
ink on paper 36.5 c 27.9 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1940-41 Portrait of Elaine
pencil on paper 31.1. x 30.1 cm
 Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1941 Seated Man (Clown)
oil on Masonite 61.3 x 40.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1941-43c Seated Figure (Classic Male)
oil and charcoal on wood panel 138.1 x 91.4 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1941 Standing Man
oil on canvas 104.4 x 86.7 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1942 Untitled
oil and charcoal on paper laid down on panel 54.6 x 49.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1942 Woman (Portrait of Elaine)
oil on board 53.3 x 35.5 cm
Allan Stone Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1942-44 The Wave
oil on fibreboard 121.9 x 121.9 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1942 Manikins
pencil on paper 34.4 x 43 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1942 Untitled
pastel, gouache and charcoal on board 38.1 x 50.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1943 Three Women
oil on paper mounted on board 35.6 x 45.7 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1943-46 Queen of Hearts
oil and charcoal on fibreboard 117 x 70 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1944 The Netherlands, from the United Nations Series
acrylic on fibreboard 31.9 x 27.4 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1945 Composition
oil on masonite 45.7 x 36.8 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1945 Abstraction
pastel, wax crayon and graphite on paper 21.6 x 27.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1945 Pink Angels
oil and charcoal on canvas 132 x 101.6 cm
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1945 Study for Pink Angels
pastel and graphite on vellum 35 x 41.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1946 Back Drop for "Labyrinth"
calcimine and charcoal on canvas 462.2 x 533 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1946 Judgement Day
oil and charcoal on paper 56.2 x 72.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1946 Special Delivery
oil, enamel, and charcoal on paper mounted on paperboard 59.3 x 76.1 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947 Event in a Barn
 oil, enamel and paper collage on board 62.9 x 83.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947 Man
 pencil on paper 35.5 x 16.1 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947 Reclining Nude
graphite on tracing paper 21.6 x 27.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947 Self-Portrait in the Wilderness
oil and charcoal on board 50.8 x 55.9 cm
 © The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947 Valentine
oil and enamel on paper on board 92.2 x 61.5 cm
MoMA, New York
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947-48 Untitled (Three Figures)
oil, enamel, graphite and charcoal on paper 52.2 x 50.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1947 Two Women
pastel and pencil on vellum laid down on paper 35.6 x 35.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1947 Untitled (Two Figures)
oil, watercolour, charcoal and graphite 57.2 x 55.9 cm (sheet)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1947 Woman
pencil on paper 44.5 x 29.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Abstraction (Black and White Abstraction)
enamel on paper 60 x 54.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Asheville
oil and enamel paint on cardboard 64.9 x 80.9 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Dark Pond
enamel on composition board 118.7 x 141.6 cm
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York