“I just wanted to make it easy for myself, to put something right in the center of the canvas. Like it had two eyes and nose and mouth and arms and feet. I had a lot of mouths cut out of magazines. And I noticed that when I had something – a photographic image like this – the mouth – it gave me a point of reference. It was something to hold on to.” —Willem de Kooning
While we are on the subject of Willem de Kooning and his Women series paintings, here’s a rare clip from an interview with de Kooning, speaking of the inspiration to make the series.
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