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Spaightwood Galleries
Willem de Kooning (Dutch, American, 1904-1997)
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One of the most important figures in the American Abstract Expressionist movement, Willem de Kooning has been hailed as "the supremely painterly painter of the second half of the trwentieth century and the greatest painter of the human figure since Picasso" (David Sylvester). In his 1970 study, Abstract Expressionism, Irving Sandler wrote that his "works of the late 1940s and 1950s gave rise to hundreds of imitations. Indeed, of the older Abstract Expressionists, he was the most influential on the generation that matured in the 1950s. Accountable for his leading role was the freshness of his paintings and their masterliness, his availability to younger artists, his charismatic personalithy, and his verbal brilliance." Shortly before his death, a large retrospective was shown in Washington DC at the National Gallery of Art, in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in London at the Tate Gallery. De Kooning did very few prints in his lifetime, mostly to accompany or to celebrate his friends like poet/curator Frank OHara and poet/critic John Ashbery.
Selected Bibliography: Paul Cummings et al, Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture (NY: W.W. Norton 1983); Willem De Kooning with Cornelia H. Butler, et al Willem de Kooning: Tracking the Figure (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts, 2002); Gary Garrels & Robert Storr, Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980s (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1995); Thomas B. Hess, Willem de Kooning (NY: Musuem of Modern Art, 1968); Marla Prather, David Sylvester & Richard Schiff, Willem de Kooning Paintings (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, 1994); Harold Rosenberg, Willem De Kooning (NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1974); Diane Waldman, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton (NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978); Judith Zilczer et al, Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection (NY: Rizzoli, 1993).
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Original lithograph, 1984. 175 signed & numbered impressions of which twenty five were reserved for contributors (including Richard Avedon, Jim Dine, Elaine de Kooning, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R. B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers) to a deluxe edition of John Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Image size: 387mm diameter. Price: SOLD.
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Untitled (V&A, pp. 318-319) . Original lithograph, 1967. 2500 impressions for a memorial tribute to the poet and art critic, Frank O'Hara. Illustrated in Carol Hogben & Rowan Watson, eds.From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists' Illustrated Books (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985), p. 319. Image size: 303x227mm. Price: $875.
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Untitled (V&A, pp. 318-319) . Original lithograph, 1967. 2500 impressions for a memorial tribute to the poet and art critic, Frank O'Hara. Image size: 303x227mm. Price: $675.
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Untitled (V&A, pp. 318-319) . Original lithograph, 1967. 2500 impressions for a memorial tribute to the poet and art critic, Frank O'Hara. Fold visible at left where the image extended onto an adjoining text page. Image size: 303x265mm. Price: $675.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 pm and other times by arrangement. Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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