De Kooning left an estate valued at many millions of dollars, but only after age 60 did he enjoy sporadic freedom from money worries. Well after people thought him set for life, his biographers show, he was sometimes nearly too broke to eat. He once said: "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time."
Younger artists who dream of finding the formula for creative or market success will learn from "De Kooning" how unpredictably every creative life unfolds.
"De Kooning: An American Master." Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Our favourite read of 2005 so far.
Irish Art
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Life, Art And De Kooning
One of the most controversial exhibitions ever at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980s - tracked de Kooning's work into the years during he had begun to slide into dementia. Debate about the integrity of de Kooning's late pictures continues, with high stakes for collectors who paid the mid-six-figure prices contrived by de Kooning's representatives.
De Kooning left an estate valued at many millions of dollars, but only after age 60 did he enjoy sporadic freedom from money worries. Well after people thought him set for life, his biographers show, he was sometimes nearly too broke to eat. He once said: "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time."
Younger artists who dream of finding the formula for creative or market success will learn from "De Kooning" how unpredictably every creative life unfolds.
"De Kooning: An American Master." Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Our favourite read of 2005 so far.
Irish Art
De Kooning left an estate valued at many millions of dollars, but only after age 60 did he enjoy sporadic freedom from money worries. Well after people thought him set for life, his biographers show, he was sometimes nearly too broke to eat. He once said: "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time."
Younger artists who dream of finding the formula for creative or market success will learn from "De Kooning" how unpredictably every creative life unfolds.
"De Kooning: An American Master." Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Our favourite read of 2005 so far.
Irish Art
