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Excavation, Willem de Kooning’s largest painting up to 1950, exemplifies the artist’s innovative style of expressive brushwork and distinctive organization of space into loose, sliding planes with open contours. According to de Kooning, his point of departure was an image of women working in a rice field from Bitter Rice, a 1949 Italian Neorealist film. The mobile structure of hooked ...

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The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintingsby Monet, exh. cat., 1975;New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The St. Louis Art Museum,Monet's Years at Giverny:Beyond