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 ...

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 ...

Much of the painting done in the United States and Europe during the last 30 years was in reaction to the work of one man, the Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning. He, perhaps more than anyone ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the March 20, 1997, edition of The Arizona Republic, one day after painter Willem de Kooning's death. Willem de Kooning, considered one of 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 ...

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