The works come from the collection Foundation Willem de Kooning. They will be presented in the framework of the exhibition "Willem de Kooning: ten paintings, 1983-1985", which will be held at the Gagosian Gallery from 8 November to 21 December

Foundation Willem de Kooning decided to part with ten works from his collection. But to sell them are not in private, as is usually done, and not in the auction, and in the framework of the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery from 8 November to 21 December. Ten important works by de Kooning in the period 1983-1985, expect to gain more than $ 30 million. These funds will be used for scientific and educational programs. The organizer of the exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery by John Elderfield (John Elderfield), the one who spent topping retrospective of Willem de Kooning at MOMA two years nazad@

the Decision to sell the paintings in the gallery even though it looks from the first sight unexpected, but inherently very conservative. Implementation through the gallery will attract less attention to the pictures in case of their failure, dealers are not required to disclose the prices of the works. At public auction things would be different. To unsold things would be more criticism.  

Gagosian Gallery has a reputation as a reputable exposition sites. In previous years, there were exhibitions of Museum quality — the late works of Picasso, for example, or Liechtenstein, or the same de Kooning. To get to the Picasso exhibition in 2009, people stood for hours in the street. Such events greatly raised the price of the work of artists on the art market. That is why it was decided first to organize an exhibition, to create the right impression about the work that the hope Foundation de Kooning, will help them then prodati@

20 proposed by the Fund to the sale of the canvases were selected 10. Decided to concentrate on a brief period 1983-1985, when de Kooning was very prolific and wrote in a completely different techniques. By 1987, the artist began to show early signs of mental disturbance. Shortly thereafter, he was recognized as legally incapable. The works of de Kooning 1980-ies are different. Some consider works of this period is empty. However, during the first half of the 1980s de Kooning was still actively employed by the master, whose work was approved of him critici@

Although at the Gagosian Gallery and did not disclose the price of the works, to make an opinion on the pricing is possible by results of work of the same period at public auction. So, one of the works 1984 recently at Christie's went for 9.7 million dollars, and the 1983 work for 4.4 million dollarov@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

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