Willem de Kooning
From Most Irascible of All To Triumphant Old Master
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Winging it: George McNeil
Integrity exacts a price from an artist. Take the case of painter George McNeil (1908-1995). read more »
Reckoning, If Not Repaying, New World’s Debt to Picasso
Master mimic: Arshile Gorky
“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how read more »
New York School Learnt From Soutine’s Tempestuous Hand
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Bill Jensen
Let’s get the ugly truth out of the way: Galleries are commercial enterprises—in short, read more »
New York School Learnt From Soutine's Tempestuous Hand
Let’s get the ugly truth out of the way: Galleries are commercial enterprises—in short, they’r read more »
How Much For the De Kooning (Apartment)?
Lisa de Kooning's old U.E.S. apartment.
Back in November, Ms. de Kooning dropped close to $3 million on a Jane Street condo, nearby the old AbEx stomping grounds, as reported in The Observer.
Also, Sopranos star James Gandolfini once lived in the Greenwich Village building; that is, before he got divorced and sold the multi-unit pad to his ex-wife.
Certainly the de Kooning estate is doing alright these days, with sales of the master's works thriving. Last night, Christie's postwar and contemporary sale brought in over $143 million--with several de Kooning works in the mix. An untitled painting (1961) sold for $10 million, and Two Women (Study for Clamdigger) fetched $5.7 million. read more »
- Michael CalderoneDespite Prefab Proficiency, Klee’s Enigmas Still Charm
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Paul Klee
Egon Schiele and Paul Klee are both crowd pleasers, but how radically different are the pleasures th read more »
Nadine Johnson’s $3.2 M. Deal
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Nadine Johnson.
Life in the fishbowl isn’t the thing for Nadine Johnson, the Belgian-born über-publicist read more »
Nadine Johnson's $3.2 M. Deal
Life in the fishbowl isn’t the thing for Nadine Johnson, the Belgian-born über-publicist and form read more »
Seldom-Cited Master Hans Hofmann Returns To Reacquaint Viewers
There are currents of influence on the contemporary art scene so pervasive that, in retrospect, they read more »
Allusive, Eccentric Complex: A Different Kind of de Kooning
The thematic conceit of Willem de Kooning: Garden in Delft , a career-spanning exhibition of landsc read more »
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Allusive, Eccentric Complex:A Different Kind of de Kooning
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Fairfield Porter Gets Some of What Critics Owe Him
Sometimes it takes New York art museums an absurdly long time to recognize the importance of a major read more »
Expatriate Mitchell Tapped Into France When Action Was Here
Half a century ago, when the Abstract Expressionist painters of the New York School were in their as read more »
Avant-Garde Graham, Haunted by Masters, Shocked Modernists
It is the odd fate of certain artists to be freshly rediscovered in almost every generation that suc read more »
Enough About the Late Work-Here Is de Kooning's Real Legacy
The ease with which the late paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) have been accepted as master read more »
Mamma Mia: Cute, Explicit Homages to Childbearing
It's the rare artist who isable to transform kitsch into something more than what it is, and Ann Age read more »
Currently Hanging
An Anteroom Show Gives Short Shrift to PorterPorter's work isn't compatible with an ethos that place read more »
Rudy Burckhardt, Artist, Kept to His Own Agenda
Sinclair Lewis once said that nobody ever got to be famous in America without wanting it very badly. read more »
Perfect Ingres Portraits, Down to the Buttonholes
There are times when it is the curious fate of an artist to achieve his greatest work as a consequen read more »
Farewell, Saul Steinberg, a Mordant, Comic Artist
Saul Steinberg, who died on May 12 at the age of 84, was one of the best-known and most admired arti read more »
Jinny and Bagley Wright: Collecting as a Calling
There are times when one has to travel a certain distance to acquire some perspective on the recent read more »
Elaine de Kooning's Ode to a Vanished New York
For anyone who has been around the New York art world as long as I have,the large exhibition of port read more »
Gaga Over Guggenheim's Frankenthaler Exhibition
Around certain paintings there accumulates a historical aura that makes them even more of a legend t read more »
