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Fan account of Willem de Kooning, a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. 1904-1997 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 10h

Landscape at Stanton Street collections.artsmia.org/art/53740

One of the most important figures of Abstract Expressionism, De Kooning made prints only sporadically during his career. His most successful prints, including this masterful lithograph of 1971, are dynamic variants of action painting on stone.

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 17h

A Tree in Naples www.moma.org/collection/works/80116

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 18h

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/125411

Gift of the artist

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/125405

Gift of the artist

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Woman www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Woman

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sting Ray www.moma.org/collection/works/72536

Gift of Lee V. Eastman and John L. Eastman

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Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Marilyn Monroe www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Marilyn Monroe

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mae West www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Mae West

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Untitled (woman) www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Untitled (woman)

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Queen of Hearts www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Queen of Hearts

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/160624

Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Door to the River www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Door to the River

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Abstraction www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Abstraction

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Untitled XII www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Untitled XII

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Composition www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Composition

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Woman I www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Woman I

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/160635

Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Painting www.moma.org/collection/works/79242

Purchase

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two trees on Mary Street . . . Amen! www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Two trees on Mary Street . . . Amen!

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/95779

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift (purchase, and gift, in part, of The Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection)

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seated Woman www.moma.org/collection/works/91693

Estate of Stella Waitzkin given in loving memory of Bill Waitzkin and promised gift of an anonymous donor in celebration of The Museum of Modern Art's 75th anniversary

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Landscape of a Woman www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Landscape of a Woman

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Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woman I www.moma.org/collection/works/79810

Purchase

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Untitled (Peace Symbol and Animal Figures Also Known as I Love Lisa) www.moma.org/collection/works/72133

Acquired with matching funds from Gerrit L. Lansing, Arthur Stanton and the National Endowment for the Arts

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Special Delivery www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Special Delivery

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Asheville www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Asheville

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Untitled www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Woman and Bicycle www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Woman and Bicycle

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Clam Digger (Litho #3) from 9 www.moma.org/collection/works/78103

John B. Turner Fund

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/160628

Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Woman - Red Hair, Large Mouth, Large Foot www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Woman - Red Hair, Large Mouth, Large Foot

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Woman, II www.moma.org/collection/works/79763

Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Untitled (Triptych) www.slam.org/collection/objects/397…

Untitled (Triptych)

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Minnie Mouse www.moma.org/collection/works/75506

Gift of The International Council, The Museum of Modern Art

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/125399

Gift of the artist

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sphinx www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Sphinx

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Woman www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Woman

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saturday Night www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Saturday Night

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Excavation www.artic.edu/artworks/76244

Willem de Kooning was a central figure in Abstract Expressionism, an art movement that espoused the painterly actions of the artist as a sign of his or her emotions. De Kooning completed Excavation in June 1950, just in time for it to be exhibited in the twenty-fifth Venice Biennale. His largest painting up to that date, the work exemplifies the Dutch-born innovator’s style, with its expressive brushwork and distinctive organization of space into sliding planes with open contours. According to the artist, the point of departure for the painting was an image of women working in a rice field in Bitter Rice, a 1949 Neorealist film by Italian director Giuseppe de Santis. The mobile structure of hooked calligraphic lines defines anatomical parts—bird and fish shapes, human noses, eyes, teeth, necks, and jaws—that seem to dance across the painted surface, revealing the particular tension between abstraction and figuration that is inherent in de Kooning’s work. The original white pigment has yellowed over the years, diluting somewhat the flashes of red, blue, yellow, and pink that punctuate the composition. Aptly titled, the painting reflects de Kooning’s technically masterful painting process: an intensive building up of the surface and scraping down of its paint layers, often for months, until the desired effect was achieved.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; restricted gifts of Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Plate (folio 64 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/11186

Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Still Life www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-koonin…

Still Life

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/160641

Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Two Figures www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Two Figures

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Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Untitled XI www.artic.edu/artworks/100830

Willem de Kooning is known for emotive, gestural canvases that transcend conventional definitions of figuration and abstraction. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he turned his attention away from painting, instead focusing on sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. In 1975, at the age of 71, de Kooning began one of the most productive periods of painting in his career, quickly completing 20 new, large canvases within 6 months. Untitled XI belongs to this series, which was, with a few exceptions, untitled and chronologically numbered. Moving away from tightly organized compositions, de Kooning used free-flowing brushwork and softened, sensuous hues to liberate form. Here the figurative references that are dominant in his earlier work are nearly lost within a far more lyrical and joyful abstract landscape.

Through prior bequests of John J. Ireland and Joseph Winterbotham; Walter Aitken Endowment

Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/125400

Gift of the artist