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Willem de Kooning
American • 1904-1997
Biography
Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Willem de Kooning moved to the United States in his early 20s, arriving in Manhattan by 1927. A founding member of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York, de Kooning was a contemporary of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and of course his wife, Elaine de Kooning. Having claimed that “flesh is the reason why oil painting was invented,” de Kooning is best known for his rapid, forceful brushwork and thickly impastoed paint in evoking the human body, even as some of his contemporaries moved towards pure abstraction. Like the other New York School painters, de Kooning was a proponent of “Action Painting,” which emphasized the physical aspect of the work, eschewing the idea that painting was necessarily a careful, precise art form.
By the 1960s, the artist was living and working in East Hampton, where he managed to breathe new life into his work after decades in an urban environment and remained there until his death in 1997 at the age of 92. De Kooning’s works reside in leading institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Tate, London, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
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Three Women
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Composition
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Untitled
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Valentine (G. 16)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $6,300
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Untitled
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
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Untitled #4
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
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East Hampton V
Estimate $700,000 - 1,000,000
Sold for $3,055,000
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With Love (G. 28)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,780
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Souvenir of Montauk (G. 9)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $5,292
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Untitled
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $630,000
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Two Women
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
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The Man and the Big Blonde
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
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Reclining Woman
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
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Valentine
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High School Desk
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Love to Wakako
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Untitled
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $20,000
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Untitled
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $21,250
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Untitled
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $187,500
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Untitled
Estimate $70,000 - 100,000
Sold for $71,250
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Reflections: To Kermit for Our Trip to Japan
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $12,500
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Untitled XVI
Estimate $8,000,000 - 12,000,000
Sold for $10,268,000
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Untitled
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $212,500
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Untitled
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
Sold for $162,500
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