Willem de Kooning: Ten Paintings, 1983–1985 deValence and rendered helpless in this

and rendered helpless in this fury against their babies

and Richard Hell discusses Christopher Wool’s early encounters with German painters

In his drawings

It includes original essays by Elisabetta Barisoni

and Gagosian director Antwaun Sargent

Willem de Kooning: Ten Paintings, 1983–1985 deValence and rendered helpless in thisThis 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