NY Times: Brilliant
“Brilliant, sweeping, authoritative…The elusiveness of its subject makes the achievements of de Kooning: An American Master that much more dazzling. This is a book that traces de Kooning’s history, puts him on Freud’s couch, plumbs the mysteries of his cryptic and ever-changing work and follows the arc of modern art through much of the twentieth century, fusing all these elements into a remarkably lucid narrative. Most unusually, it explores the details of a messy personal life without compromising its subject’s dignity.”
Janet Maslin. “Messy Life and Genius: The Portrait of an Artist.” The New York Times, November 8, 2004.