Pink Angels, c. 1945
Untitled (1980)
Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) was a Dutch-American painter and a central figure of Abstract Expressionism, specifically the subset known as Action Painting. Alongside Jackson Pollock, he helped shift the center of the international art world from Paris to New York City in the post-World War II era.
Known for his extraordinary technical drafting skills, energetic mark-making, and dynamic tension between abstraction and figuration, de Kooning created a body of work that profoundly influenced 20th-century art.
