'They treat the artist like a sausage, tie him up at both ends, and stamp on the center 'Museum of Modern Art,' as if you're dead and they own you.'
Despite his reservations, Willem de Kooning did agree to an exhibition at MoMA and in 1968 this book was published to accompany the exhibition that toured through Amsterdam, London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The book contains beautiful colour and black and white reproductions of his paintings, sketches and drawings from the mid-thirties to the end of 1967 as the then 63 year old artist continued his prolific and generative output from his studio on Long Island. With a text written by de Kooning's friend and champion of Abstract Expressionism, Thomas B. Hess.
Published in 1968 for the Arts Council of Great Britain by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
