Willem de Kooning: The Last Beginning Gertje R. Utley Milan (2010)

Milan (2010)

expressive pose combines the artist’s interests in symbolism and in qualities he characterized as “royalty

A collaboration between Ed Ruscha and Billy Al Bengston from 1968

Inspired by each other’s practices

with Perfect and Imperfect versions created as variations on a theme

Willem de Kooning: The Last Beginning Gertje R. Utley Milan (2010)This book was published on the occasion of Willem de Kooning: The Last Beginning at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Curated by Klaus Kertess and presented in cooperation with the Johanna Liesbeth de Kooning Trust, the exhibition featured twenty three works by de Kooning, attesting to the radical stylistic shifts that culminated in the transformations of his final working years. Juxtaposed with works from prior decades, it traced the continuities