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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The mystery surrounding a missing painting just got so much weirder. How did a stolen $100M Willem de Kooning painting end up in an elderly couple's New Mexico bedroom? That's precisely the question ...

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 ...

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 ...

Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), a Dutch-born American artist, emerged as a prominent figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Best known for his "Woman" series that blends abstraction with ...