NY Times Book Review: An Important Book
“One of the great strengths of this book is its sense of an artist in his studio. At times the authors disappear, and we watch [de Kooning] apply paint, scrape it off and attack again, trace sections of a painting and pin them on other parts to see how they work, stare at pictures for hours, destroy canvases, fly into rages of frustration and fling furniture about. An important book.”
Red Grooms. “When de Kooning Was King." The New York Times Book Review, December 12, 2004.