Join us for a private tour of the Getty Museum Paintings Conservation Studio led by Ulrich H. Birkmaier, Senior Conservator of Paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum, to view the restoration of Willem de Kooning’s painting Woman-Ochre.
Willem de Kooning was one of the pioneers and leaders of the abstract expressionist movement, which began in New York after World War II. In 1950 he began his best-known body of work, the Woman series. Heavily influenced by Picasso, the series is considered monumental in the way it imagines the human figure. On the day after Thanksgiving 1985, Woman-Ochre was stolen from a university museum. Badly damaged during the theft and from its decades-long disappearance, the painting now needs professional care.
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