Woman III

It is one of a series of six Women paintings done by de Kooning in the early 1950s, which were first exhibited at the Sidney Janis gallery in 1953.The body is outlined in arcs of black; the chest and arms are more voluminous than flat, as in other Women paintings.Acquired by Shahbanu Farah, the painting was part of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art collection from the late 1970s to 1994.After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the painting could not be shown because of strict rules set by the government about the visual arts and acceptable subject matter.It is currently the fourteenth most expensive painting ever bought, and the only of de Kooning's early Woman series not held in a public collection.
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