Sentences with phrase «kooning going to pieces»

Not exact matches

Exhaustion set in by Friday, but the determination to do everything overruled, none faulted the excess, and everyone I encountered had a highpoint; one young collector went around Untitled urging visitors to borrow a surfboard from Thomas Vu's 14 - surfboard piece and head to the water — «the roughened wood surface won't take you far out, but the experience of riding a piece of art will»; another couldn't get over the metaphor of Bernardaud's $ 9,000 porcelain edition of Jeff Koons balloon dog popping out of its display case and shattering at her feet.

This piece will prove to be the artist's first major painting of a woman as de Kooning will go on to be mainly known for his decades - long work in depicting women in his paintings.

This does not mean that these pieces will not attract a plethora of buyers — aforementioned Andy Warhol's Double Elvis, Jeff Koons» Play - Doh, and Pablo Picasso's Le Marin are both expected to go for sizable amounts of money.