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1949
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (American, 1904–1997)
American Painting and Sculpture
Figure, 1949. Willem de Kooning (American, 1904–1997). Oil on cardboard; framed: 55 x 44.5 x 8 cm (21 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 46.7 x 36.8 cm (18 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1964.1 © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York By using rough, hasty brushstrokes, de Kooning gives us a glimpse into his process. He painted many women during the 1940s and 1950s, each time emphasizing the action of painting in his depictions of the female form. De Kooning once famously stated, "Flesh was the reason oil painting was invented."
- Maker/Artist
- De Kooning, Willem
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- Framed: 55 x 44.5 x 8 cm (21 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 46.7 x 36.8 cm (18 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower left: de Kooning
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1964.1
- Credit Line
- Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1964), Juxtapositions, Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, Willem de Kooning Retrospective, CMA, December, 1964: "Year in Review 1964," CMA Bulletin LI (December, 1964), p. 266, no. 163.<br>Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Museum of Art, October 26, 1979 - January 6, 1980: "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series," catalogue no. 13, reproduced p. 44.<br>CMA, November 1, 1983 - January 8, 1984: "The Figure: deKooning to Warhol," no catalogue<br>CMA, June 7 - September 8, 1991: "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum," no catalogue<br>Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 8 - September 5, 1994: "Willem de Kooning: Paintings," catalogue no. 24, reproduced color p. 123.<br>Also to: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 6, 1994 - January 8, 1995; London: The Tate Gallery, February 15 - May 7, 1995<br>Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2/10/02-4/24/02; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 6/15/02-9/8/02; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 9/29/02-1/5/03. "Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure," pl. 27.<br>Museum of Modern Art, NYC (9/18/2011 - 1/9/2012): "Willem de Kooning Retrospective"
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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