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A gallery interior inside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
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The Stowaway Comes Home: De Kooning’s Drawings Take Over the Rijksmuseum

A hundred years after Willem de Kooning stowed away from Rotterdam to New York, the Rijksmuseum has brought more than 120 of his drawings, paintings and sculptures back to the Netherlands — and hung two of his most famous canvases a few rooms from the Night Watch.

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