Willem de Kooning: A Centennial Exhibition
This book was published on the occasion of Willem de Kooning: A Centennial Exhibition at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Held in 2004 in celebration of what would have been the artist’s one hundredth birthday, the exhibition included thirty-nine paintings spanning five decades, from 1946 through 1988. Curated by David Whitney, it focused on de Kooning’s abstraction, including Surrealist-influenced works of the 1940s, landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s, gestural paintings of the 1970s, and luminous canvases of the 1980s.
The catalogue contains color plates of the works interspersed with illustrated essays by art historian Richard Shiff, former Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam director Edy de Wilde, and de Kooning’s former studio assistant Tom Ferrara. Five previously published interviews with the artist by Storm de Hirsch (1955), Selden Rodman (1957), David Sylvester (1960), Harold Rosenberg (1972), and Gaby Rodgers (1978) are also included, alongside a selected biography and bibliography.
Publisher: Gagosian
Publication date: 2004
Contributors: Storm de Hirsch, Willem de Kooning, Edy de Wilde, Tom Ferrara, Gaby Rodgers, Selden Rodman, Harold Rosenberg, Richard Shiff, David Sylvester
Designer: Bruce Mau Design
Printer: Transcontinental Litho Acme, Montreal
Format: Cloth hardcover in dust jacket
Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 11 3/4 inches (26 × 29.8 cm)
Pages: 136
Language: English
ISBN: 0-9623024-8-1
