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Kooning
/ ˈkuːnɪŋ /
Example Sentences
Rauschenberg wanted a De Kooning drawing so he could erase it.
“Erasing” De Kooning would get the incipient powerhouse out of the way, artistically speaking.
One day in 1953, the young and not yet widely known artist Robert Rauschenberg, just 26, knocked on the studio door of Willem de Kooning, 49, a newly successful figure just emerging into the forefront among a growing cohort of celebrated painters in postwar New York.
She was part of the group of postwar artists — Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning — written about in the book “Ninth Street Women,” which details how abstract expressionism was born in this country and how women were a crucial part of it.
Benjamin’s home was filled with art catalogs and past editions of Art in America, where Mathieu was introduced to his earliest artistic inspirations, including de Kooning, Luc Tuymans and Francis Bacon.
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