"Women III" is the work of abstract expressionist-style paintings that were sold in November 2006 for US $ 152.5 million. This painting was made in 1951 measuring 1.7 m X 1.2 m.
The post-World War II, de Kooning as an homage to the painter of abstract expressionism, and is part of a group of artists who became known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston and Clyfford Still.
In September 2011 work of De Kooning get kerhormatan on large-scale retrospective exhibition, de Kooning A Retrospective 18 September 2011 - January 9, 2012 at the MoMA in New York City.
Willem de Kooning was born 24 April 1904 in North Rotterdam and died 19 March 1997 in Long Island, New York United States. Running an artistic education at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques for eight years. In 1920 he worked as an assistant art director at Rotterdam department store. Then he moved to the United States as a stowaway British freighter SS Shelley in 1926 De Kooning was one of the thirty-eight artists were selected from a general invitation to the New York City metropolitan artists to design and paint a mural 105 public at the 1939 New York World Fair
In 1938, probably under the influence of Arshile Gorky, De Kooning in his paintings begin with pigure men, including his work entitled Two Men Standing, Man, and Man Figure Sitting, while simultaneously starting to paint over ABSTRACT pure colors, such as on Pink Landscape and Elegy. It seems his work continues to grow, high color and elegant lines of the abstractions began to creep into the works of a more figurative, and by chance figures and abstractions continued until the 1940s
In 1938, de Kooning met Elaine Marie Fried, later known as Elaine de Kooning, whom he married in 1943. He also became a significant artist. During the 1940s, he became increasingly identified with the Abstract Expressionist movement and was recognized as one of the leaders in the mid-1950s. He taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1948 and at the Yale School of Art in 1950-1951. In 1950, de Kooning was one of 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists.