Object number1987.52.2

Black and White Rome F

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the Rome Series

Date1959

Artist Willem de Kooning (American, b. Netherlands, 1904 - 1997)

CultureAmerican

MediumEnamel with fine particulate filler on cut, torn, and pasted Fabriano paper, mounted on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 27 3/4 x 39 1/4 in. (70.5 x 99.7 cm)
Framed: 30 5/16 x 41 11/16 x 2 3/4 in. (77 x 105.9 x 7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Dorothy D. Compton, class of 1917, and Randolph P. Compton

On View

On view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedOn recto, lower right corner in ink: de Kooning

InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower right corner in ink: '59

BibliographyNobuyuki, Okabe. Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Japan: Yamagata Museum of Art, 2008, cat. no. 54 Cummings, Paul, Jorn Merkert, and Claire Stoullig. Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture. New York and Munich: Whitney Museum of American Art and Prestel-Verlag, 1983, p. 74; Garrels, Gary and Mario Codognato. Willem de Kooning and Italy, New York, NY: ARTBOOK/D.A.P., 2024, p. 98-99ProvenancePurchased from Sidney Janis Limited, New York, 1962

Vassar Exhibitions

Paris-New York: Modernist Painting in 19th and 20th century Masterworks from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Exhibition HistoryRecent Paintings by Willem deKooning, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March 5 - March 31, 1962;

Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, December 15, 1983 - February 26, 1984; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, March 11 - April 29, 1984; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, June 26 - September 24, 1984;

Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth Century Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY, June 29 - September 16, 2001;

Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Japan, March 7 - May 11, 2008; Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, Japan, May 17 - July 20, 2008; Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan, July 30 - August 31, 2008; Fuchu Art Museum, Fuchu, Japan, September 6 - November 3, 2008; Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan, November 14 - December 14, 2008;

Willem de Kooning and Italy, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, Venezia, Italy, April 17 - September 15, 2024
DescriptionLarge swaths of black painted across torn and collaged beige colored paper. The strokes have the halting qualities of brush dryness while other areas have marks of brush saturation in the form of drips and spatter. Throughout the work is a characteristic of splotchieness and irregularity within the black pigment.

Terms

Abstract Expressionist

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