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Willem de Kooning
American, born The Netherlands, 1904–1997
Figure at Barnes Hole, 1962
oil and monotype on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gift of Edward R. Broida

At first, Willem de Kooning's Figure at Barnes Hole of 1962 appears to be purely abstract, but the central form is a female nude: with the blonde head is visible at the upper right, and the legs extend to the lower left. Although the majority of abstract expressionists purged their compositions of representation, this work demonstrates that figurative content could still coincide with the aims of postwar American abstraction.

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