Willem De Kooning – Woman And Corset And Long Hair

Women with Corset and Long Hair; signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘De Kooning 70’. From the edition of 61 printed by Hollanders Workshop and published by Knoedler Gallery, New York.

A first-generation Abstract Expressionist, Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. In 1950s New York, when painters such as Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline were moving toward pure abstraction, de Kooning developed a signature style that fused vivid color and aggressive paint handling with deconstructed images of the female form—a then-controversial body of work that has become known as his ‘Women’ series. In his later years, de Kooning abandoned the figure, embracing lyrical abstraction and more discreet references to the body.

Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1970
Dimensions: 94 × 76.2 cm
Sign: Hand-signed and stamped