Which painting by Willem de Kooning sold for $137.5 million in 2006?

Which painting by Willem de Kooning sold for $137.5 million in 2006? Woman III did.

De Kooning painted Woman III in 1953, during his celebrated Woman series, which combined aggressive brushwork, distorted anatomy, and references to both modern advertising and prehistoric fertility figures. The series helped establish his reputation as a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism.

Woman III was owned by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art for years before collector David Geffen acquired it in 1994. In November 2006, Geffen sold it to hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million. At the time, the sale ranked among the highest prices ever paid for a painting.

A common mix-up is with Interchange, another de Kooning painting sold by Geffen in 2015 for a reported $300 million. Woman I, Woman II, and Woman V are related works, but they were not the painting involved in the 2006 transaction.