Which Abstract Expressionist painted 'Woman I'?

Which Abstract Expressionist painted “Woman I”? Willem de Kooning painted it.

Woman I is a 1950–1952 painting by Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning and the first of his celebrated series of six “Woman” paintings. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The work combines aggressive brushwork, scraped and layered paint, and a monumental frontal figure whose wide eyes and exaggerated grin create an unsettling effect.

De Kooning worked on the painting for about two years and made numerous preliminary studies, repeatedly revising and restarting it. The result challenged the idea that Abstract Expressionism had to be entirely nonrepresentational. Although the image depicts a woman, its fractured contours and turbulent surface make the figure inseparable from the painting’s abstract energy.

Viewers sometimes confuse Woman I with the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock because both artists belonged to the New York Abstract Expressionist scene. Their methods differed, however: Pollock is associated with poured and splattered paint, while de Kooning’s signature approach in Woman I depends on forceful brushwork, scraping, revision, and the collision of figure and abstraction.