Woman with a Hat

1966

Willem de Kooning

Associated Names
Willem de Kooning

Painter, American, born the Netherlands, 1904 - 1997

This painting depicts swirling and overlapping shapes painted with thick, visible brushstrokes. The central shape is a combination of tan and pale pink tones with darker pink outlines. This abstract shape vaguely resembles a human body, with a round, lumpy torso, long legs, and a small head accented with magenta circles. On top of the head is another tan shape that looks like two arms clasped on top of the head, or perhaps a large, wide-brimmed hat. Surrounding this shape are thick streaks of beige, yellow, green, cream, blue, and dark pink.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; (M. Knoedler & Company, New York); purchased 28 November 1967 by General and Mrs. Dillman A. Rash, Louisville, Kentucky;[1] gift (partial and promised) 1991 to NGA; gift completed 1998.
[1] According to the donor's records, copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement to catalogue, color repro.

1994

  • Willem de Kooning: Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Gallery, London, 1994-1995, no. 55, color repro. (shown in Washington only).

2012

  • Women: Picasso, Beckmann, de Kooning, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2012, no. 73, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left in paint: de Kooning

Wikidata ID

Q20196731

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