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 ...

We are at a moment in art when "isms" are dead, when instinct trumps theory, when abstraction and figuration live happily together, when variety is better than a single style, and when political ...

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 ...

Nearly four decades after a Willem de Kooning painting was violently cut from its frame at a museum and kept in a couple’s bedroom, the newly restored work, likely worth well above $100 million, will ...

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 ...

A trio of paintings by Willem de Kooning from his family’s collection will be auctioned for the first time this November at Sotheby’s New York, with a combined value in excess of US$50 million. The ...

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 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 ...

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NEW YORKNEW YORK — Six years in the making, the Willem de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art is surely one of the not-to-be-missed shows of the fall season. Occupying the museum’s ...