Willem de KooningÉtats-Unis, 1904–1997Untitled (Torsos)
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New York, États-Unis
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- 196.1993
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- Museum of Modern Art
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Dans la vie de Willem de Kooning
La vie entière1943–1957
An “open” marriage with Elaine
Willem and Elaine’s marriage was later called an open marriage: both were casual about sex and about each other’s affairs. Elaine had affairs with men who helped further Willem’s career, such as the art critic Harold Rosenberg, the ARTnews editor Thomas B. Hess and Charles Egan, owner of the Charles Egan Gallery.
1948–1966
Fourteen solo exhibitions
From 1948 to 1966 De Kooning had 14 solo exhibitions, many in New York but also nationally and internationally, among them the Egan Gallery, the Sidney Janis Gallery, the Martha Jackson Gallery, the Allan Stone Gallery and museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Smith College Museum of Art. There were two a year in 1953, 1964 and 1965.
1950s
The path of “figurative abstractions”
In the 1950s De Kooning followed a path of primitivisation and developed so-called “figurative abstractions”: a solitary female figure, under furious, pasty “blow-like” brushstrokes, turns into a painterly totem open to radical Freudian readings.
1956
The birth of his daughter Lisa
In 1956 De Kooning had a daughter, Lisa de Kooning, as a result of his affair with Joan Ward.
1956
A romance with Ruth Kligman after Pollock’s death
After Jackson Pollock died in a car crash in 1956, ending Ruth Kligman’s affair with him, De Kooning had a romance with her.
