Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials 2024 Pubs Sale artfully positioned fruits and vegetables

artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the golden age of the painted still-life

Spyros Iakovides

allegorical depictions of death

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Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials 2024 Pubs Sale artfully positioned fruits and vegetablesSusan F. Lake This in depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (19041997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather