Willem de Kooning: Mostly Women: Drawings and Paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection Rosalind Krauss The dog clutches poles and

The dog clutches poles and wires as lightning strikes

Several of the work’s notations are autobiographical: the trio of figures on the right depicts the artist with the rap musician Rammellzee and the painter Toxic

including portraits from Boafo’s Body Politics

the lithograph is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the Trustees of the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust

and an entry from artist Agnes Pelton’s journal

Willem de Kooning: Mostly Women: Drawings and Paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection Rosalind Krauss The dog clutches poles andThis book was published on the occasion of Willem de Kooning: Mostly Women: Drawings and Paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. The exhibition featured thirty two works that were mostly expressionist portraits of womende Koonings most celebrated subjectacquired in the mid 1960s, when the collectors established a friendship with the artist. The selection included a 1951 study for a portrait of