Picador I

ELAINE de KOONING, 1918-1989

Long interested in animal forms, Elaine de Kooning made several excursions in 1983 to see the pre-historic caves in southern France and northern Spain. She made sketches in her hotel room after visiting the sites and then translated this material into larger paintings back in the United States. She uses high-keyed colors and the vigorous brushwork of the Abstract Expressionism, declining to mimic the original cave drawings. The work is powerful, suggestive, and at the same time, delicate and painterly.

Source: askArt; Compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher of Laguna Woods, California.