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Although strongly associated with Abstract Expressionism, de Kooning's work did not completely abandon representation, as this etching shows. Made late in the artist's career, its imagery is inspired by Neolithic cave paintings found in Perle-Merle, France.

Source: News, October November December, 2009


DimensionsSheet: 16 5/8 × 16 1/8 in. (42.2 × 41 cm)
Plate: 10 × 10 in. (25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Accession Number 1997.81
Classificationsprint
SignedE. de K '85 (l/r in pencil)
Inscriptions16/35 (l/l in pencil)
Edition16/35
Peche-Merle
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Woman with Corset and Long Hair
Willem de Kooning
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Woman at Clearwater Beach
Willem de Kooning
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Clam Digger
Willem de Kooning
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Seventeen Lithographs for Frank O'Hara
Willem de Kooning
1988
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Reclining Figure
Willem de Kooning
1969-1982
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
Venus et l' Amour (Venus and Cupid)
Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non
after François Boucher
1766
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
El de la rollona (Nanny's Boy), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
date unknown
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
La pêche à la ligne
Jean-Emile Laboureur
1928
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Asta su Abuelo (As Far Back as His Grandfather), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
after Annibale Carracci
1669
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
Portrait of an Old Woman
Jean Jacques de Boissieu
1770
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lo Mismo (The Same), from "Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1810-1814