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What: Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" is a 30-by-40-inch oil painting he made in the winter of 1954-55. The artwork is part of his famous Women series where the Dutch-American artist explored ...
$100M de Kooning painting returned: How a museum is honoring those who brought it home The 1979 memo which was copied to then-UA President John Paul Schaefer, requested that two members of the ...
Willem de Kooning's 'Woman-Ochre' was stolen in 1985 and seriously damaged. The restored painting will be on view at the Getty starting next week.
The painting "Woman-Ochre" by Willem de Kooning was stolen in 1985 from the University of Arizona and recovered at an estate sale in August 2017. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...
“Woman-Ochre” by Willem de Kooning at the conservation studio in the Getty Museum. Part of the artist’s “Woman” series, the painting was stolen in 1985 and found five years ago at a New ...
The "Woman-Ochre" painting stolen 36 years ago from the University of Arizona returns to the campus with a Homeland Security escort.
Finding the de Kooning has been a life-changing experience for the Silver City antique dealers. At least once a week, someone will come into Manzanita Ridge, their 10,000-square-foot store, and ...
Ahead of the November sale, the three de Kooning paintings will hit the road on a multi-city tour, going on view at Sotheby’s outposts in Hong Kong (October 2–8), London (October 8–12), ...
De Kooning, who died at 92 in 1997, once fell down a flight of stairs while drunk in his East Hampton home and was treated in intensive care at the hospital for four days, he said.
De Kooning shocked the art world in the 1950s with a series known as the “Women” paintings. They were dramatic, aggressive depictions of women with big mouths, wide eyes and exaggerated breasts.
Composite sketches were released after a man and a woman stole a valuable de Kooning painting from the University of Arizona museum in 1985. “They had one blue car,” he said.
One of de Kooning's friends once asked her what it was like to work in the shadow of her husband, Willem de Kooning. She replied: "I don't paint in his shadow, I paint in his light.'" ...