The Marriage of Bill and Elaine De Kooning

In the booming New York of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Elaine Fried, a talented artist and brilliant wordsmith became a leading advocate of Abstract Expressionism, and one of the few involved in formulating the position of the pivotal movement; ambitious and a pioneer in her own right, she was nevertheless aware that women were marginalized by the art world; charming and promiscuous, she built and promoted the career of her husband, painter Bill de Kooning, through her many intellectual and sexual encounters with art dealers and art critics.

An epic story of love, passion, adultery, hard-drinking, obsession and betrayal.