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Willem de Kooning

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Profession
Painter
Died
Mar 19, 1997
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
RotterdamNetherlands
About
Abstract expressionist painter whose best-known works included "Woman I," "Attic," and "Excavation." His first solo show was in 1948 at the Charles Egan Gallery.
Family
He was born into the working-class family of Leendert de Kooning and Cornelia Nobel; he lived with his mother following his parents' 1907 divorce. He married Elaine Marie Fried in 1943.

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