Kooning by Hess Thomas, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by de Kooning on the front endpage, "love to Emilie, Bill". Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Some toning to endpapers as well as page margins. The price-clipped jacket has edge-wear including chipping and tears. Rear panel has a larger missing piece, measuring about three-quarters inch wide by one-quarter inch deep. Jacket spine rather heavily sunned, and with sunning to a lesser extent at all edges. Provenance: From the estate of Emilie "Mimi" Kilgore, who shared an important and well-documented relationship with de Kooning. The two met in 1970, and over the ensuing many years, Ms. Kilgore had a profound and vital impact on both the artist's life and his work. Sotheby's, in a nice write-up refers to her as "the woman who became his muse". In a letter to her, de Kooning states, ""I dedicate all of my paintings to you." He was entirely in love with Emilie -- invigorated by her sophistication, her relative youth, and her vibrant energy. In 1975, he asked Emilie to marry him -- an offer she declined, although they continued to remain close. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 63p octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in dust jacket with some minor soiling to the white dust jacket. Inscribed by De Kooning "To Fritz from Bill with Love, de Kooning ".

Hess, Thomas B. WILLEM DE KOONING: Drawings. 296 pp. include 128 plates, a few in color. Folio, in new black half-morocco. Lausanne, a Paul Bianchini Book / Editions des Massons, 1972. A special limited edition, signed by the artist. Freitag 2190 cites the English edition.