Attic Willem De Kooning

Oil enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas dimensions.

Attic willem de kooning.

157 2 205 7 cm classification. Willem de kooning attic 1949 oil enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas 159 1 x 207 6 x 6 4 cm. Born in rotterdam holland willem de kooning left school at sixteen and apprenticed with a firm of commercial artists and decorators. He was born in rotterdam and moved to the united states in 1926 becoming an american citizen in 1962.

De kooning was already forty four years old when he had his first solo exhibition at the charlie egan gallery in the spring of 1948. Willem de kooning born april 24 1904 rotterdam netherlands died march 19 1997 east hampton new york u s dutch born american painter who was one of the leading exponents of abstract expressionism particularly the form known as action painting during the 1930s and 40s de kooning worked simultaneously in figurative and abstract modes but by about 1945 these two tendencies. We offer 15 day money back guarantee. April 24 1904 march 19 1997 was a dutch american abstract expressionist artist.

In 1943 he married painter elaine fried. New york the metropolitan museum of art the muriel kallis steinberg newman collection. All order will take 1 3 business days for processing. All artwork is printed using archival inks resistant to fading.

The muriel kallis steinberg newman collection gift of muriel kallis newman in honor of her son glenn david steinberg. The show was little noticed in the press but it jolted the artists of the. In the years after world war ii de kooning painted in a style that came to be. Most of the paintings in the exhibition resembled untitled compositions painted in black and white with vaguely recognizable shapes and complex plays of figure and ground.

Willem de kooning american born the netherlands rotterdam 1904 1997 east hampton new york date.