He reworked many of his pieces innumerable times before he would be satisfied with it, which along with his use of aggressive brushwork and high-key colors combined to create a sensation at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1953.
He reworked many of his pieces innumerable times before he would be satisfied with it, which along with his use of aggressive brushwork and high-key colors combined to create a sensation at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1953. Major influences on his work are Cubism, Surrealism, and Arshille Gorky, with whom he shared a studio. He was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Prize in 1979, and a retrospective of his work was mounted in 1983 by the Whitney Museum. The toothy snarls, overripe breasts, and (*) vacuous eyes of pieces such as Seated Woman, Woman and Bicycle, and Two Women in the Country are characteristic of, FTP, which abstract expressionist painter best known for his "Woman" series? 
 
He reworked many of his pieces innumerable times before he would be satisfied with it, which along with his use of aggressive brushwork and high-key colors combined to create a sensation at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1953.
Willem de {Kooning}