1068920

Willem de Kooning Print, Thelonius Monk-Devil #1068920

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Willem de Kooning Print, Thelonius Monk-Devil #1068920
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Artist: Willem de Kooning

Title: Rainbow-Thelonius Monk-Devil at the Keyboard

Year: 1972

Medium: 6 color lithograph on Thin Velin

Edition: Less than 1000

Paper Size: 35-1/2" x 24-1/2"




Publisher: Shorewood Publishing, NY for the Rainbow Foundation



This is quite a famous and important image. There were two signed and numbered editions totaling no more than 150 pieces. In addition, and using the same plate, are these plate-signed pieces which were run in a limited edition of less than 1000.






Biography



Willem De Kooning, one of the recognized masters of abstract expressionism, was a founder of the New York School of action painting. Born and raised in tidy, neat Holland, De Kooning created art that is the antithesis of calm. His paintings seem to retain the force of instantaneous creation, with images continuing to grow out of other images.



Born in Rotterdam in 1904, De Kooning received a solid background in the applied arts as an apprentice, first for a commercial art firm and then for a display and sign painter. Through the latter, he was exposed to the de Stijl geometric design movement, led by Mondrian, and to the cubist revolutionaries of Paris.



Working by day, he studied painting in evening classes at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques. In 1924, he went to Belgium for further study; two years later, as a stowaway, he came to the United States.



De Kooning ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1972</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:35.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Willem de Kooning Print, Thelonius Monk-Devil</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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