Willem de Kooning

Dutch painter (1904-1997).

Born April 24th, 1904 in Rotterdam. [ref]

Died March 19th, 1997 at 92 years old in Long Island, East Hampton (Alzheimer's disease). [ref]

Occupations
designer, drawer, painter, printmaker, sculptor, university teacher
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde