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Article: Willem de Kooning. (C&M Arts Gallery, New York, New York)
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- Artforum International
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- December 1, 1993
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Willem de Kooning's art has fallen into a strange twilight since Elaine de Kooning's death and the subsequent legal battle over his guardianship. No new paintings of de Kooning's have been exhibited since 1987, but those were of a breathtaking incisiveness and allusive economy--among the artist's greatest works. As some of us continue to wonder just what his extraordinary work of the mid '80s might have led to--and anticipate the de Kooning painting retrospective at the National Gallery--we can be grateful for having had the opportunity to reconsider another of the most vibrant parts of his career, the paintings of the late '70s.
The supple, protean volatility of the ...