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At Yale, he learned to paint de Kooning rip-offs with such facility that he once told de Kooning that he'd painted more de Koonings than de Kooning had.
So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.
As de Kooning crossed the threshold, a transformation took place.
By the mid-1960s, like others of his generation, he'd left the gestural art of Pollock and de Kooning behind (though Pollock could have painted the swirling chest hair in Big Self-Portrait ) and begun using photographic images as the basis for his cooler, less openly expressive work.
Others think they document the de Kooning whom Close saw in the studio: an old man still young in his art.