Willem de Kooning

Black and White
1959

An abstract black and white ink painting with bold, sweeping brushstrokes creating dynamic shapes and negative spaces on the canvas. Splatters and drips of ink add texture to the composition.

An abstract black and white ink painting with bold, sweeping brushstrokes creating dynamic shapes and negative spaces on the canvas. Splatters and drips of ink add texture to the composition.

Not on view

Date
1959

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Enamel on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 27 1/4 × 39in. (69.2 × 99.1 cm)

Accession number
75.21a-b

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift in memory of Audrey Stern Hess

Rights and reproductions
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/2449

Exhibitions

De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (2nd floor–Oct 2002)

Oct 9, 2002–Mar 1, 2003

Willem de Kooning
19 works in the collection

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