Woman I

1952

Willem de Kooning

Artist, American, born the Netherlands, 1904 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel, crayon and graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 22.9 x 28.5 cm (9 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.32.1

  • Copyright

    © 2002 Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 119.

1981

  • Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, unnumbered brochure.

1983

  • Willem de Kooning: Drawings-Paintings-Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, 1983-1984.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 88, as Study for Woman I.

2002

  • Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 52, as Study for "Woman I".

Bibliography

1983

  • Cummings, Paul, et al. Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. New York and Munich, 1983: 44.

1997

  • Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 192, fig. 1.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 88.

2002

  • Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure. Exh. cat. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002-2003: 145-146, no. 52.

Inscriptions

upper left in graphite: de Kooning

Wikidata ID

Q64636033


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