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 ...

Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de ... anew as “Erased De Kooning Drawing,” a mischievously Oedipal work of early conceptual art.

Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting will examine the artist’s explorations of figuration and abstraction in work from 1944 through 1986, highlighting cyclical motifs throughout his decades-long ...

Willem de Kooning, Pirate (Untitled II), 1981, Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York. As Garrels reminds us in the catalogue’s introductory overview, de Kooning (1904–97) had a long ...

By John Otis The Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning, a seminal figure in Abstract Expressionism and 20th-century art, came to the United States in 1926 as a stowaway on a freighter bound for ...

Thus began a working relationship between Willem de Kooning ... After Ferrara left to pursue his own painting career in 1987, de Kooning was mostly finished with painting, and died in 1997 ...

Titled "Willem de Kooning and Italy," the exhibition is the first to explore the time that the artist spent in the country between 1959 and 1969 and how his time there impacted his practice.

At first, Ferrara made bookshelves and cooked his meals while living at Elaine’s house about a mile away. Soon he moved into de Kooning’s studio to help with organizing, stretching canvases ...