Taken on its own, a small masterpiece, such as the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Figure,” from 1949, which depicts a seated woman whose body dissolves in a field of jagged strokes of paint, is a ...

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 ...

Willem De Kooning, one of the preeminent, if not the most celebrated painter of the New York School, is not a name one associates immediately with Italy. Yet a robust and extensively researched ...

Workers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital were looking for room to store ventilators amid the pandemic when they found this cache. The pieces are now being appraised by art dealers. Annie Wermiel/NY ...

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 ...

“De Kooning: A Retrospective,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the most piercing, inexhaustible and relentlessly intense full-on career survey I have ever seen in this country. It could only be better ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A gallery owner's gamble on the contents behind a dusty door to a storage unit could make him millions. The treasure inside wasn't exactly buried, but it was most definitely ...

On the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, a man and a woman entered the nearly deserted University of Arizona Museum of Art and left after only a few minutes. Moments later, a security guard discovered ...

Less than two hours into the VIP preview of Art Basel in Hong Kong, power dealer Lévy Gorvy announced the sale of its star work at the booth—a Willem de Kooning abstract painting from 1975 with an ...

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