Hardcover
2004 · Rotterdam, The Netherlands
by de Kooning, Wllem and Richard E. Ouwerkerk
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Willem de Kooning Academy Publications, 2004. Hardcover. VG (Ex-art library, with few marks on book block edges and outermost pages, otherwise quite clean.). Swiss-bound. Cream cloth, with blue paper front board. 46 pp., illus. Text is in Dutch and English. Offers the text of two letters sent in the 1940s by Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning (1904-1977) to his father back in Rotterdam, Leendert de Kooning (1876-1955). With an introduction by Richard E. Ouwerkerk. Includes reproductions of the handwritten letters and envelopes, as well as their Dutch transcriptions and English translations. Scarce.
(Inventory #: 157543)