$300,000,000 for Willem de Kooning’s Interchange, 1955.

Willem de Kooning has become synonymous with a post–World War II art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As the world attempted to put itself together after the war, so did artists like de Kooning, who felt disillusioned and damaged by the events that transpired. De Kooning’s work expresses the ugly reality of that new world.