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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While browsing a secondhand website last year, artnet News reports, a Belgian couple named Jan and Chris Starckx scored an amazing bargain: a painting that's likely a long-lost artwork by Willem de ...

Less than two hours into the VIP preview of Art Basel in Hong Kong, power dealer Lévy Gorvy announced the sale of its star work at the booth—a Willem de Kooning abstract painting from 1975 with an ...

In 1977 an interviewer asked a 73-year-old Willem de Kooning which artists had inspired him and got a somewhat unexpected answer. “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine—all of his paintings,” the ...

The Southwest’s most brazen robbery didn’t occur from horseback against a stagecoach by a gang of masked desperadoes. It wasn’t 11 dashing and charismatic career hustlers knocking over three Las Vegas ...

A storage locker in New Jersey has been hiding a stash of art potentially worth millions. As The New York Post reports, New York City art dealer David Killen discovered six paintings inside the unit ...

In 1977 an interviewer asked a 73-year-old Willem de Kooning which artists had inspired him and got a somewhat unexpected answer. “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine—all of his paintings,” the ...