The art of Willem de Kooning at MoMA

 "Six years in the making, the Willem de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art is surely one of the not-to-be-missed shows of the fall season.


Occupying the museum's entire sixth-floor gallery space, the exhibition brings together nearly 200 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures that illuminate de Kooning's restless journey between abstraction and representation during nearly seven decades of work.


The show, opening to the public on Sunday, begins with two charming still lifes that reflect the Dutch-born artist's strong academic training and background in commercial art, including one painting he made as a boy of 12."

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