“He had indeed invented a new figure. His explosive, reconstructed woman, possessed of voluptuous humor, is not only an earth mother or an avenging dream, but a modern scavenging consumer. Standing bold, frontal, inviting, suggestive, yet inaccessible, her image continues to torment as she is pursued.”
- P. Cummings quoted in “The Drawings of Willem de Kooning,” Willem de Kooning: Drawings Paintings, Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1983, p. 17
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