Pictured is the group, in Life, 1950; de Kooning is in back row, ... Woman II, 1951-52, Willem de Kooning. Interviewed by Sylvester a few years earlier, he spoke of the authority that he felt he had achieved in his painting. ‘Women Singing II’ was created in 1966 by Willem de Kooning in Abstract Expressionism style. Carl Court / Getty Images "Woman III" (1953) is celebrated for its depiction of a woman as aggressive and highly erotic. Artwork page for ‘Women Singing II’, Willem de Kooning, 1966 This is one of three paintings by De Kooning titled Women Singing. De Kooning and this group finally stole the spotlight and were responsible for the historic shift of attention to New York in the years following World War II. Summary of Willem de Kooning. It measures 68 by 48 1/2 inches (1.73 by 1.23 m) and was completed in 1953. One of the most prominent and celebrated of the Abstract Expressionist painters, Willem de Kooning's pictures typify the vigorous, gestural style of the movement. Woman III belongs to the series of Women paintings de Kooning showed at the Sidney Janis Gallery to much outrage and controversy within the art world. The energetic style and vibrant colours are typical of De Kooning''s work of the 1960s. During the summer of 1952, spent at East Hampton, de Kooning further explored the theme through drawings and pastels. Woman III is one of a series of six paintings by de Kooning done between 1951 and 1953 in which the central theme was a woman. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Willem de Kooning. Woman in a Rowboat is a seminal painting by de Kooning that relates to his second major series of Woman paintings begun in 1964. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. De Kooning's response was to begin three other paintings on the same theme; Woman II (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), Woman III (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art), Woman IV (Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City). Find more prominent pieces of figurative at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. The surface of the canvas is covered in thick swathes of energetic, vertical, and horizontal gestures of creamy and silvery hues. After World War II, de Kooning's avant-garde circle approached celebrity status. Women Singing II might not be de Kooning’s most erotic painting – it is not the splayed-legged women of The Visit or Woman on a Sign I 1967 (figs.1 and 10) – but curator Lynne Cooke has written eloquently of what the erotic meant in the 1960s for Sontag and other thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. A member of staff poses next to paintings by Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning entitled 'Woman' (L), 'Woman II' (C) and 'Woman as Landscape' (R) at the Royal Academy of Arts on September 20, 2016 in London, England. View Two women II by Willem de Kooning on artnet. 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