Death
Elaine de Kooning died on February 1, 1989, in Southampton, New York, a year after having a lung removed due to lung cancer. Willem de Kooning, who was never officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's but nonetheless reported to have had the disease, was told in the summer of 1989 that his wife had died.
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