Willem de Kooning, Woman IV, 1952-3.

...Also a reminder to Strath that I'm going to be super bummed if he doesn't go to the retrospective at MoMA while he's in New York this week. I told him that he'd probably stand in the middle of the first gallery and vomit from the sheer force of it all. (That was before I read Jerry Saltz's review: "the most piercing, inexhaustible, and relentlessly intense full-on career survey I have ever seen in this country.") So, there you have it. Two good reasons to go.