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:
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| 1948 Night oil on board 55.9 x 73 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1948 Painting enamel and oil on canvas 108.3 x 142.5 cm Moma, New York Willem de Kooning © 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1948 Secretary oil and charcoal on paper mounted on fibreboard 62 x 92 cm Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1949 Attic oil, enamel, and newspaper transfer on canvas 157.1 x 205.7 cm MoMA, New York © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1949-50 Untitled 29.8 x 22.5 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 1949-50 Woman enamel and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas 59.8 x 41.4 cm MoMA, New York © 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| c1949 Landscape, Abstract oil on paper 48.9 x 64.9 cm Whitney Museum of Art, New York © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1950 Boudoir oil, enamel and charcoal on paper 33 x 53 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1950 Woman oil on masonite and paper 93 x 62.2 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| c1950 Untitled black enamel paint on off-white wove paper 48.5 x 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| c1950 Untitled pastel and charcoal on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1951 Untitled charcoal on vellum 55.9 x 76.2 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1952 Five Women graphite on paper 44.5 x 72.5 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| c1953 Untitled (Woman) graphite and pastel on paper 60 x 47 cm © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |