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Elaine de Kooning, Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings, 1967 https://t.co/76kcNCUCnL

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Elaine de Kooning, Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings, 1967 https://t.co/MlIPh1lkpO

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Elaine de Kooning, Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings, 1967 https://t.co/vpIIYmJ90T

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Willem de Kooning was 1904 in Rotterdam and in 1926, with help of his friend Leo Cohan, he crossed the ocean as stowaway on a ship to the USA.

The Cliff of the Palisade with Hudson River, Weehawken, New Jersey, 1963 (detail)
Rotterdam, June 2018.

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Willem de Kooning
(Netherlands, 1904-1997). "Woman Seated", 1940

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The female figure was an important symbol for Willem de Kooning–born 1904–& manifested herself in his work "as at once the focus of desire, frustration, inner conflict, pleasure… & as posing problems of conception & handling as demanding as those of an engineer."

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"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."
Dutch-American painter, was born 24 April 1904

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