A dynamic and forceful charcoal drawing by Willem de Kooning, *Woman* exemplifies the artist's signature Abstract Expressionist approach through its bold, gestural mark-making. The female figure emerges from a turbulent web of vigorous lines and smudged charcoal strokes, simultaneously asserting and dissolving her form. De Kooning's raw, energetic technique captures the tension between representation and abstraction that defined his celebrated series of women throughout the 1950s.