De Kooning turned 80 in 1984. By the end of the decade, dementia would end his career. In these final years, the great innovator made a remarkable shift, delving headlong into a style that feels airy, ...

A body of work spanning de Kooning’s career from the early ’40s through the late ’80s is on display at Gagosian’s 21st Street gallery in an exhibition entitled Willem de Kooning: The Last Beginning.

I can only concur, gratefully, with Peter Schjeldahl’s enthusiastic review of the sumptuous de Kooning retrospective currently on view at MOMA and, in particular, his assessment of Willem de Kooning’s ...

Untitled I, oil on paper. Photo: Kris Graves for New York Magazine Untitled I, oil on paper. Photo: Kris Graves for New York Magazine Art dealer David Killen has one of the less-blue-chip jobs in ...

The Willem de Kooning Foundation will sell 10 works by the late modernist master via a New York exhibition in a bid to raise more than $30-million for its endowment to support scholarly and ...

The Southwest’s most brazen robbery didn’t occur from horseback against a stagecoach by a gang of masked desperadoes. It wasn’t 11 dashing and charismatic career hustlers knocking over three Las Vegas ...

A Parisian-born oil heiress, she collected art and supported major artists, designed costumes and moved in rarefied social and cultural circles. By David A. Andelman Images from 1965 of the ...

Lauded for being an early pioneer of Abstract Expressionism and “action painting,” Dutch American painter Willem de Kooning, were he alive, would have turned 111-years-old today. In celebration of his ...

A retrospective of Elaine de Kooning’s portraits -- bold examples of postwar Abstract Expressionism -- will open March 13 at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. “Elaine de Kooning: ...

A collection of Willem de Kooning works on view at Gagosian Gallery’s Madison Avenue space in New York offers a glimpse into the artist’s last decade of production. Titled “Ten Paintings, 1983–1985,” ...