Willem de Kooning
How a Persian manuscript was swapped for a Willem de Kooning owned by the Iranian government
Oliver Hoare's memoir details the story of the ambitious exchange of an Iranian masterpiece for a painting by the Abstract Expressionist
A disembodied Marilyn Monroe and a vibrant De Kooning from the collection of Eric Clapton: our pick of the October sales
Plus, a colourful Magritte painting and a Simone Baltaxé tapestry
The Big Review: Willem de Kooning and Italy at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice ★★★☆☆
A show studded with masterpieces by the Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist—but the Italian connection is tenuous
Willem de Kooning’s Italian adventures explored in Gallerie dell’Accademia show
The American artist’s prolific career included two spells in Italy, ten years apart. An exhibition in Venice explores the impact these visits had on his work
Major Willem de Kooning exhibition to open during Venice Biennale 2024
Gallerie dell’Accademia show will explore how Italy shaped the late artist’s vision
Works from publishing billionaire S.I. Newhouse’s collection could bring more than $144m at Christie's
A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019
‘That’s not enough’: Willem de Kooning’s advice to a young Wayne Thiebaud
An excerpt from one of Thiebaud’s final interviews, which features in the catalogue of a survey at the Fondation Beyeler, reveals how the US artist arrived at his signature style
De Kooning’s Woman Ochre returns to the museum it was stolen from in 1985
The painting, which was missing for more than 30 years after it was cut from its frame and stolen, made a stop at the Getty Center in Los Angeles for restoration
Koons, Ray and De Kooning will lead Christie's marquee November sales in New York
Two of the star lots have been consigned by the Greek Cypriot industrialist and collector Dakis Joannou
The $100m collection of former Whitney Museum president David Solinger will be sold at Sotheby’s
Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning
Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, missing for 30 years after a heist, returns to public view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles this summer
The painting was sliced from its frame and torn from its backing in a daylight robbery at the University of Arizona Museum of Art on Thanksgiving Day in 1985
Cut from its frame in brazen theft and lost for 30 years, restored De Kooning painting will take centre stage in Getty show
Los Angeles museum will unveil the results of an intensive conservation of Woman-Ochre, which was badly damaged when it was stolen in 1985
Seeing Chaïm Soutine through the eyes of Willem de Kooning
A side-by-side show at the Barnes Foundation brings together two Expressionist greats who fused the figurative and the abstract in their work
Women through men’s eyes in Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne
Picasso, Beckmann, De Kooning and the female form
Museums lending to commercial galleries: The debate
Director of the Rose Art Museum examines both sides of the argument
What's on in New York: Serra’s solemnity and size at Gagosian
Posthumous popularity at Max Protetch, last works at Matthew Marks mapping at James Cohan, psychedelic audio-visual art at Feigen effective excellence at Zwirner, and homage at Universal Concepts
Major gift of American art and cash to San Francisco MOMA
The donation will strengthen the museum’s holdings with major paintings by Americans such as Philip Guston, Leon Golub, Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning
Tate's new retrospective: Why did we get de Kooning?
Are we right to be so admiring of the work currently exhibited at the Tate
De Kooning and the critics
As the current survey opens in London, we look at how it fared in the US
The Book of Kings returned to Iran by US in exchange for de Kooning painting
The greatest surviving Persian manuscript was swapped for Woman III, once owned by the Shah of Iran