It measures 68 by 48 1/2 inches (1.73 by 1.23 m) and was completed in 1953. 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. Interviewed by Sylvester a few years earlier, he spoke of the authority that he felt he had achieved in his painting. Woman III. 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. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Willem de Kooning. 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. 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. They were based on pop singers the artist saw on television. In November 2006, the painting was sold by Geffen to billionaire Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million, making it the third most expensive painting ever sold. Carl Court / Getty Images "Woman III" (1953) is celebrated for its depiction of a woman as aggressive and highly erotic. Pictured is the group, in Life, 1950; de Kooning is in back row, ... Woman II, 1951-52, Willem de Kooning. The surface of the canvas is covered in thick swathes of energetic, vertical, and horizontal gestures of creamy and silvery hues. Summary of Willem de Kooning. 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. 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). During the summer of 1952, spent at East Hampton, de Kooning further explored the theme through drawings and pastels. Yet Woman in Landscape II belongs to a body of paintings that, however far the motif has been reworked and reconfigured, are drawn from de Kooning’s experience of nature and his love of the landscape of East Hampton on Long Island. View Two women II by Willem de Kooning on artnet. ‘Women Singing II’ was created in 1966 by Willem de Kooning in Abstract Expressionism style. 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