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 ...

It’s a good day for the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The institution is celebrating the return of Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre (1954–55), which was stolen the day after Thanksgiving in 1985 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

It was the offer of a lifetime he almost refused. A Chelsea art gallery owner hit the jackpot when he took a $15,000 gamble on a storage locker and discovered that its contents held a half-dozen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...