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Willem de Kooning The late paintings the 1980´s. Gary Carrels, en inglés, museo de San Francisco, a precio económico, buen libro.

Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1904. After training in the graphic and fine arts, he immigrated to the United States in 1926, where he quickly became part of the evolving modernist art movement in New York. His first solo exhibition—which included black-and-white abstractions—was held in 1948 at the Charles Egan Gallery, and was met with critical acclaim. A flurry of international exhibitions followed. In 1963, de Kooning moved from Manhattan to the East End of Long Island, New York, where he lived until his death in 1997. His work has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1969 and 2011–12), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1983–84), and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1994). In 1995, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organized the first major exhibition of paintings from the 1980s, which traveled to international venues, and to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions of the 1980s works include “Willem de Kooning: Late Paintings,” which opened at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2006, and travelled to the Carlo Bilotti Museum, Rome.