This mid‑career work comes from the collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell, dating to 1968, a prolific period where de Kooning continued to test the limits of the human form within abstraction. The composition carries echoes of the figure that emerge and dissolve amid surging paint strokes. Unlike the massive, heavily layered canvases of his 1950s Woman series, this piece rests on paperboard affixed to canvas, lending it a lighter, more immediate, sketch-like vitality. Forms do not settle into fixed portraiture; they flicker, overlap and recede into the painted field, sustained by the raw physicality of each gesture.
Responsive Brushwork and Active Surface
The brushwork is rapid and reactive, built from overlapping passes, drags and wiped strokes. Colour is deployed not to render realistic volume, but to generate movement and psychological tension. The paperboard support lends a subtle, matte foundation that softens the paint’s presence, keeping focus firmly on the rhythm of de Kooning’s mark-making. There is no polished resolution; the painting preserves the open, exploratory energy of the artist’s working process.
Hand-Painted Translation of Paperboard Original
Our studio artists carefully replicate the improvisational tempo and textured surface quality of the original oil-on-paperboard work mounted to canvas. Every stroke is applied by hand, retaining the spontaneous, unrepeatable quality of de Kooning’s gesture. Each finished canvas carries unique brush variation that mechanical printing cannot replicate. This is a hand-painted interpretation, not Willem de Kooning’s original artwork, authorised edition or museum-certified piece.
Interior Styling Guidance
This expressive mid-size abstract-figurative work fits beautifully within sophisticated contemporary, mid-century and collector-oriented interiors. It works well as a standalone accent or grouped within a curated gallery wall of postwar abstract expressionist works. Muted matte wall tones allow the tangled interplay of form and brushwork to remain the focal point. Its dynamic presence adjusts according to your selected canvas dimension.
Key Details
- Hand-painted oil reproduction of Willem de Kooning Untitled, executed 1968
- Original: oil on paperboard laid down on canvas, 29 ¾ by 41 ½ in. (75.6 by 105.4 cm), signed lower left
- Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell
- Not the original artwork, authorised edition, or print
- Completed by artists at Dafen artist studio
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