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Benjamin’s home was filled with art catalogs and past editions of Art in America, where Mathieu was introduced to his earliest artistic inspirations, including de Kooning, Luc Tuymans and Francis Bacon.

Willem de Kooning had never been to Italy when he traveled to Venice for an amorous rendezvous in September 1959.

Secreted inside Warhol’s choice of commercial supermarket cans, however, was artist Willem de Kooning, the Dutch-born American titan of Abstract Expressionist art, who described his own brand of messy paint as “soup.”

Other artists that feature in her collection include American painter and sculptor Jasper Johns, Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning and American painter and printmaker Robert Rauschenberg.

Close, best known for his monumental photorealist portraits, had not yet found his style and was painting in an expressionist mode heavily influenced by Willem de Kooning.