Thursday, October 12, 2006
oil paint
The NY Times (in an article you can only access with a (free) account) said this painting by Wilhelm de Kooning was just bought by one of "the" players on the hedge fund and art collecting scenes. Which I mention partly out of jealousy but mostly because I had quite a start when I saw the picture. In pre-historic times (i.e., when I was a little girl), my father was a somewhat ballyhooed critic of the arts and he knew lots of people. One day he took me to visit de Kooning's Greenwich Village studio. I was horrified by the smell of the oil paint and overwhelmed by the intensity of everyone and everything there, but it made such an enormous impression on me that I've never forgotten the smells or the colors. The Times made a point of saying that this was from the years de Kooning had his studio in the Village (before he moved to Long Island) and it certainly looks like what I remember, so it may be the very painting I saw.Labels: about me, modern culture
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