Willem de Kooning
Xavier Fourcade, Inc.
Until now, one of the dilemmas expressionist painters had not resolved was how to make their painterly brushstrokes glide across the canvas with a balletic, airy grace. Until now, it seemed impossible to maintain a balance between being un-self-conscious and remaining in control. (Jackson Pollock did it, but only after he found another way to put down the paint.) Typically, the expressionist’s response to the despairing, disfiguring world has been a discordant barrage of paint. One could say that expressionists have continued to display a theatrical side more in tune with Wagner’s top-heavy