COFFEE TABLE
By Judith Zilczer Phaidon
WILLEM DE KOONING made paintings that were bold, boundary-changing and dripping in energy. The Dutch artist, who had stowed away on a ship to America in 1927, emerged as part of the postwar Action school in New York City, alongside such contemporaries as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. But although his work has since reached record auction prices of up to $300 million, there’s a sense that perhaps he hasn’t been given his critical due.