Willem de Kooning

Dutch (Active in USA) | 1904 - 1997

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch (active in USA) Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1904. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Pace Los Angeles and will be on exhibit at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco on March 06, 2025. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Drawing Center have featured Willem de Kooning's work in the past.Willem de Kooning's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 10 USD to 68,937,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 68,937,500 USD for Woman as Landscape, sold at Christie's New York in 2018. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 2,604,542 USD, while his sculptures have sold for an average of 1,560,000 USD.Willem de Kooning has been featured in articles for The Washington Post, HYPEBEAST and ArtDaily. The most recent article is The Irascibles: The Birth of American Abstract Expressionism written for Daily Art Magazine in February 2025. The artist died in 1997.

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Lithograph in colors ,1967

By Willem de Kooning

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Willem De Kooning- Untitled- Woman- State IV- circa 1967-68

By Willem de Kooning

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Paris Review ,1979

By Willem de Kooning

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Notable Lots

Orestes ,1947

By Willem de Kooning

Untitled II ,1977

By Willem de Kooning

Woman (Green) ,1953

By Willem de Kooning

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Willem De Kooning- Untitled- Woman- State IV- circa 1967-68

By Willem de Kooning

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Willem De Kooning- Untitled- Woman- State II- circa 1967-68

By Willem de Kooning

1st Bid Auction

Willem De Kooning- Untitled (Orange + Green Abstraction

By Willem de Kooning

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Post-Auction Lots for Sale

Paris Review ,1979

By Willem de Kooning

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IN THE SKY ,1982

By Willem de Kooning

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Ro Gallery

HAMPTONS MUSIC FESTIVAL - Willem de Kooning

HAMPTONS MUSIC FESTIVAL ,2004

By Willem de Kooning

Ro Gallery

Untitled ,1965

By Willem de Kooning

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Sotheby's Paris

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Current Exhibitions

The Monster

Pace Los Angeles

Los Angeles | California | USA

Feb 01,2025 - Mar 22,2025

Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate

Worcester Art Museum

Worcester | Massachusetts | USA

Nov 23,2024 - Mar 29,2025

A Little Grey For Color

Plains Art Museum

Fargo | North Dakota | USA

Jul 13,2024 - Mar 31,2025

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Articles

Art from the Riggio Collection Will Go on the Auction Block This Spring

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Coverage

“ ..For de Kooning, the exploration of sculpture—which he began at the age of 65—was intended as an extension of the paintings for which he is widely known and acclaimed... ”
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Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street)

“ ..“In some ways, clay is even better than oil,” de Kooning admitted in 1972... ”
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Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street)

“ ..De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive... ”
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Xavier Hufkens, 6 rue St-Georges

“ ..While de Kooning’s work captures the speed of paint strokes on canvas, paradoxically, he was known at times to spent months completing a single work... ”
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Xavier Hufkens, 6 rue St-Georges

“ ..Although best known for her bravura large-scale work, Brown will show a series of jewel-like, small paintings, which she began as a means by which to interpret the role of human scale and perception in... ”
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Deichtorhallen Hamburg