Willem de Kooning: Mostly Women: Drawings and Paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection Yolanda Cuomo and Self-Portraits

and Self-Portraits

and includes an essay by artist and writer Zachary Cahill and a chronology of Gates’s exhibitions

Picasso developed a simplified technique of progressively recutting and printing the same linoleum block rather than using a separate block for each color

Combining graphic brushstrokes

The catalogue reproduces over eighty works from the Perfect and Imperfect series as full-color reproductions and features an essay by art historian Yve-Alain Bois that contextualizes the work within modernist strategies

Willem de Kooning: Mostly Women: Drawings and Paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection Yolanda Cuomo and Self-PortraitsThis book was published on the occasion of Willem de Kooning: Mostly Women: Drawings and Paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. The exhibition featured thirty two works that were mostly expressionist portraits of womende Koonings most celebrated subjectacquired in the mid 1960s, when the collectors established a friendship with the artist. The selection included a 1951 study for a portrait of