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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2010, the Museum of Modern Art was criticized for its skimpy representation of the Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning in its huge abstract expressionist show. The museum has now made up for ...

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 ...

When 22- year-old Willem de Kooning arrived in New York Harbor in 1926 as a stowaway on the SS Shelley, he came with academic training in commercial and fine art from his native Netherlands as well as ...

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