Willem de Kooning’s painting 'Woman-Ochre' ready for display

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Mon, 30 May 2022 - 11:36 GMT

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Willem de Kooning's painting "Woman-Ochre" being repaired after it was looted for 30 years - social media

Willem de Kooning's painting "Woman-Ochre" being repaired after it was looted for 30 years - social media

CAIRO – 30 May 2022: A Los Angeles museum has repaired a prized abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning and will soon display it for the first time since it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art.

 

 

 

 

The once missing painting, "Woman-Ochre", will be on display at the Jenny Museum from June 7 to August 28. The oil-on-canvas work was cut in the mid-1950s from its frame and stolen on November 29, 1985.

 

 

 

 

The painting appeared for sale after it was stolen in the small town of Cliff, west of New Mexico, in August 2017. It was purchased with other items by an antiques dealer, and no one has been arrested for theft.

 

 

 

 

UAMA officials turned to experts at the Getty Museum to repair the damaged artwork. “The painting came to us in a very bad condition,” said Ulrich Berkmayer, the Getty's chief conservator of paintings. “The brutal manner in which it was ripped from its lining caused severe peeling and tearing of the paint, not to mention the damage caused by the blade that was used to cut it from its frame,” continued Berkmayer.

 

 

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