A leading artist among the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning never believed that abstraction and representation were mutually exclusive. As he stated: “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.” Woman and Bicycle, one of a series of…

Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52. Oil and metallic paint on canvas. 6' 3 7/8" x 58" (192.7 x 147.3 cm). Purchase. 478.1953. © 2025 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting & Sculpture

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Untitled XX by Willem de Kooning 1977. A work from the collections of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums of San Francisco, CA.

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Willem de Kooning. Untitled III. 1982. Oil on canvas. 6' 8