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 ...

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 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 ...

Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of artistic brilliance. If it feels a little shocking that his work is ...

Nearly four decades after a Willem de Kooning painting was violently cut from its frame at a museum and kept in a couple’s bedroom, the newly restored work, likely worth well above $100 million, will ...

De Kooning turned 80 in 1984. By the end of the decade, dementia would end his career. In these final years, the great innovator made a remarkable shift, delving headlong into a style that feels airy, ...

A trio of paintings by Willem de Kooning from his family’s collection will be auctioned for the first time this November at Sotheby’s New York, with a combined value in excess of US$50 million. The ...

When David Killen, a New York gallerist and auctioneer, got a cold call in 2016 from a schoolteacher offering to sell him a storage unit filled with art, he almost turned it down. A large auction ...

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