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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Until the newest iteration of Bravo's "Work of Art" reality show returns in October (no need to attend any actual gallery exhibitions during that month), the lovably conformist world of art shall be ...
THERE is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia,” Willem de Kooning once noted, with an artist’s lordly disregard for details of engineering. “Duchamp is on it. Cézanne ...
The ripping sound must have been horrific. When thieves pulled out a sharp blade to slice Willem de Kooning’s painting “Woman-Ochre” from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson ...
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 ...