This fall, a trio of Willem de Kooning paintings from the collection of the deceased artist’s family will hit the block at Sotheby’s New York. Estimated to bring in more than $50 million together, the ...

An upcoming exhibition in Venice will be the first major show to explore how artist Willem de Kooning was inspired by his two visits to Italy, in 1959 and 1969. Including some 75 works ranging from ...

Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of artistic brilliance. If it feels a little shocking that his work is ...

Last week, the university welcomed Reclining Figure (1969-1982) by renowned American artist Willem de Kooning to the Homewood campus. On loan from The Willem de Kooning Foundation in New York City, ...

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On “Willem de Kooning and Italy” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice. For a return to the twentieth century after an immersion in the Venetian Renaissance, the most exciting and ...

There was a time not too long ago when “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, would have had fans back in the U.S. gnashing their teeth. We are talking, after all, ...

In New York City in the 1940s, painters Willem de Kooning and his wife, Elaine, were the people you wanted at your dinner party. He was inventing abstract expressionism. She, his former student, was ...

The great myth about the painter Willem de Kooning is that he arrived like a comet in the 1940s and tailed off soon after, said Jerry Saltz in New York. During the few short years that the Dutch-born ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...