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What work brought de Kooning both notice and notoriety?

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In his monumental series of the early 1950s entitled Woman, he reintroduced a representational element. Woman I (1951-52; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City), with its startling ferocity, brought him considerable notice and some notoriety.

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