The canvas is a dense field of whites, blacks, yellows, and flesh tones, with fragments that suggest bodies, signs, and buried forms. It feels like an archaeological dig through modern perception. De Kooning makes abstraction feel crowded with things almost remembered.

Oil and enamel on canvas with interlocking forms, scraping, and energetic linear structure.

The title suggests digging into memory, body, and image. Forms hover between figure and abstraction.

Made at a peak moment of postwar New York experimentation before de Kooning’s Woman series.

The work became a major example of abstract painting that retains bodily tension.