Thick black brushstrokes cross over a white background with scattered black ink splatters.

Drawings

Black and White

1959

Medium
Enamel on paper
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 27 1/4 × 39 in. (69.2 × 99.1 cm)
Accession number
75.21a-b
Acquired
1975
Credit line
Gift in memory of Audrey Stern Hess
Reproduction credit
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Willem de Kooning, Black and White, 1959. Enamel on paper, sheet (sight): 27 1/4 × 39 in. (69.2 × 99.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift in memory of Audrey Stern Hess 75.21a-b. © The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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