Artist Willem de Kooning a No-Show in Court on Assault Charge
Oct. 11, 1961 - The abstract painter Willem de Kooning (pictured) could not appear in court to answer an assault charge, his lawyer said today, because he must shut himself off from society during his work periods. Mr. de Kooning had been accused of assaulting Raymond Maurel, an engineer, in a Greenwich Village tavern last Dec. 9. The painter’s lawyer, Lee V. Eastman, asked Justice Owen McGivern to allow the artist 120 days before requiring him to appear for examination. “Thi