Woman in a Rowboat is a seminal painting by de Kooning that relates to his second major series of Woman paintings begun in 1964. De Kooning returned to this subject matter at different periods of his career, and with each painting in the series, the women on the canvas became more abstracted as they melted into lines and colors. Woman in a Rowboatrepresents this new fluidity.
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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
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Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, Arizona
Exh. Cat., Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning:Liquefying Cubism, 1994, p. VII, illustrated (installation photograph from the 1965 De Kooning/Cornell exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Museum of Modern Art, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective, 2011, fig. 7, p. 356, illustrated.
John Elderfield, “de Kooning: A Retrospective,” Museum of Modern Art – New York, 2011- 2012, p. 356
Woman in a Rowboat196447 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. oil on paper laid on masonite
Provenance
Allan Stone Gallery, New YorkPrivate Collection, New York
Private Collection, Arizona
Literature
Thomas B. Hess, "De Kooning's New Women," Art News, March 1965, p. 37 (text reference) Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, 1994, fig. 15, p. 15, illustratedExh. Cat., Allan Stone Gallery, Willem de Kooning:Liquefying Cubism, 1994, p. VII, illustrated (installation photograph from the 1965 De Kooning/Cornell exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Museum of Modern Art, Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective, 2011, fig. 7, p. 356, illustrated.
John Elderfield, “de Kooning: A Retrospective,” Museum of Modern Art – New York, 2011- 2012, p. 356
