Willem de Kooning: Ten Paintings, 1983–1985 Childe Hassam Edited and with an introduction

Edited and with an introduction by Kristine McKenna

which takes readers into the world of music

curator and critic Antwaun Sargent explores the role of the Black body in the marketplace

painterly qualities of his earlier work into ever narrower bands of prismatic hues set against variously toned whites

the artist’s first exhibition in New York

Willem de Kooning: Ten Paintings, 1983–1985 Childe Hassam Edited and with an introductionThis book was published on the occasion of Willem de Kooning: Ten Paintings, 19831985 at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Organized in collaboration with the Willem de Kooning Foundation and curated by John Elderfield, this focused exhibition featured paintings from a critical three year period in the final decade of the artists long career. Beginning in 1983, de Kooning initiated a dramatic reinvention, condensing the richly tactile, painterly