Painting of the Week- #2 Most Expensive Ever Sold

So I'll admit, this one I don't understand AT ALL...I guess I must be missing something.

The painting for this week is the #2 most expensive painting ever sold. Painted by Willem de Koonig in 1953, "Woman III" measures 68 by 48 1/2 inches. In 2006, "Woman III" was sold to billionaire Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million!! It is one in a series of 6 paintings done by Koonig in which the central theme was a woman. (Go figure.) From Wikipedia:

"De Kooning had painted women regularly in the early 1940s and again from 1947 to 1949. The biomorphic shapes of his early abstractions can be interpreted as female symbols. But it was not until 1950 that he began to explore the subject of women exclusively...During this period he also created other paintings of women. These works were shown at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1953 and caused a sensation, chiefly because they were figurative when most of his fellow Abstract Expressionists were painting abstractly and because of their blatant technique and imagery. The appearance of aggressive brushwork and the use of high-key colors combine to reveal a woman all too congruent with some of modern man's most widely held sexual fears. The toothy snarls, overripe, pendulous breasts, vacuous eyes, and blasted extremities imaged the darkest Freudian insights..."

You'll have to let me know what you think. But don't get too freaked out by the "dark Freudian insights" you might find. :)