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Spanning genres and decades, this exhibition brings together a curated selection of artists who explore the ways in which line, colour, and form transcend and create new pictorial languages.

Ceaselessly reinventive, de Kooning continued to innovate up until the final years of his career. He revisited his early work with the distinctive simplicity of Henri Matisse’s oeuvre in mind, identifying the lines and colours that scaffolded prior instances of his bravado brushwork. Distilled to the essentials, these radically reductive paintings were denounced by critic Deborah Solomon who remarked that …