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 ...

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 ...

Sotheby’s has revealed two of the major lots of the fall auction season in New York: an “extremely rare” Willem de Kooning painting offered by art dealer Robert Mnuchin, father of US Treasury ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A gallery owner's gamble on the contents behind a dusty door to a storage unit could make him millions. The treasure inside wasn't exactly buried, but it was most definitely ...

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 ...

Jerry Saltz: Mark, the Willem de Kooning biography you and your wife, Annalyn Swan, wrote gave me the most vivid picture of the mid-century New York art world I’ve ever had. One thing that really ...

In 2010, the Museum of Modern Art was criticized for its skimpy representation of the Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning in its huge abstract expressionist show. The museum has now made up for ...

Elaine de Kooning was probably born 30 years too early. The New York painter, who died in 1989 at age 70, had a surfeit of talents. She was both a gifted figurative painter and a committed Abstract ...

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 wrapped up its edition with a confident bravado not seen for many years. When the machinery runs smoothly and the buyers turn out in force, it is an unbeatable combo.