Anmerkungen:
Impressum: "Willem de Kooning Drawings" is published on the occasion of an exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, 526 West 22nd Street, New York, from May 7 to June 26, 2021
Beschreibung:
This catalogue is published to accompany an exhibition of thirty-two drawings spanning Willem de Kooning?s long career. Each one, reproduced in full color, is situated in the context of the artist?s work and life with comments, complete cataloguing information, and supplementary illustrations.0Opening with abstract and figurative drawings from de Kooning?s early years in New York, the catalogue continues with examples of his Woman drawings from the 1950s, several 1960s works inspired by drawing with his eyes closed, and finally figures and landscapes from the 1970s dematerialized by his energetic mark-making.0As Peter Schjeldahl writes in the catalogue essay, de Kooning?s drawings ?may appear willfully messy, as if in thrall to a spirit of negligence, but never, not once, does it issue in a mess. [?] Could any mark be altered or omitted without loss? The notion is unthinkable.?00Exhibition: Matthew Marks Gallery, London, UK (07.05-26.06.2021)