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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was in the Fifties that de Kooning’s commanding reputation became a public phenomenon for the first time. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of ...

A long-lost painting by Willem de Kooning, Woman-Ochre (1955), has been rediscovered, and is now making a victory lap in the U.S. A pair of schoolteachers, Jerry and Rita Alter, are thought to have ...

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 ...

VENICE — The press conference to celebrate this spasmodic retrospective of Willem de Kooning — about his four-decades-long encounter with Italy and all things Italian, and comprising 75 works — takes ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...

Directly our paranoid potential is aroused, it is as if we set foot into a mythological world inhabited, not by human beings, but by demons, ogres and witches whose evil practices can only be combated ...

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Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral. By Max Norman A Parisian-born oil heiress, she ...