Willem de Kooning
Untitled
1963-1973
Scroll
Willem de Kooning
Untitled
1963-1973
Physical Qualities
Charcoal with stumping, Sheet: 473 × 605 mm. (18 5/8 × 23 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number
1973.37
"The landscape is in the Woman and there is Woman in the landscape." Willem de Kooning
This drawing combines two of the artist's major themes, a woman and a landscape. The doll-like figure has a caricatured face and exaggerated eyelashes. With the ruffled skirt pulled up above her knees, the figure has a provocative, though slightly unsteady, stance. The head, crowned with a flurry of lines and excessively round and wide, serves both as part of the figure and as the sun in the landscape behind her. In this composition of ambiguous, fragmented forms, the female figure is absorbed by its environment, merging into the landscape.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1973; Mr. Edward Benesch, NY, 1973; Fourcade, Droll Inc, NY, 1973; M. Knoedler & Co., 1969; the artist
BMA, "On Paper: Figure Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," April 20 - September 14, 2014.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Willem deKooning (1904-1997)," Sept 18 2011 - January 9, 2012.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
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BMA, "BMA Collects: Landscape Drawings from the T.E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 8 May - 17 June, 1990.
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BMA, "Figure Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 July - 27 September 1987.
BMA, "Selected Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Collection," 3 September - 1 December 1985.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
Guggenheim, NY, "Willem de Kooning in East Hampton," 10 February - 23 March 1978, cat. 75.
AFA, "The Drawing Society National Exhibition," circulated to the Corcoran etc., 1970-72, cat. 16.
M. Knoedler & Co., NY, 4 March - 22 March, 1969.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Willem deKooning (1904-1997)," Sept 18 2011 - January 9, 2012.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Landscape Drawings from the T.E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 8 May - 17 June, 1990.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "Figure Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 July - 27 September 1987.
BMA, "Selected Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Collection," 3 September - 1 December 1985.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
Guggenheim, NY, "Willem de Kooning in East Hampton," 10 February - 23 March 1978, cat. 75.
AFA, "The Drawing Society National Exhibition," circulated to the Corcoran etc., 1970-72, cat. 16.
M. Knoedler & Co., NY, 4 March - 22 March, 1969.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 185, ill.
Elderfield, John. De Kooning: A Retrospective. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011, page 376, plate 137.
Inscribed: lower left in charcoal: "de Kooning"
