The Independent - London, February 21st, 1995
The Tate Gallery's retrospective of the work of Willem de Kooning, the last surviving Abstract Expressionist painter, is no ordinary art exhibition. It is a canonisation, with the most senior of its organisers, David Sylvester, playing the part of the Pope. De Kooning, to quote Sylvester's benediction, written for the exhibition catalogue and partially reprinted in this newspaper last week, is not only "the supreme painterly painter of the second half of the century and the greatest painter of the human figure since Picasso" but he also belongs "in the middle of the map of this century's art l...
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