Alex Katz
BICYCLE RIDER (SCHRÖDER 154), 1982
On Arches Cover paper, signed and inscribed AP 21/25 in pencil (aside from the edition of 250), …
New York School painter Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation. His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art. Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum.
On Arches Cover paper, signed and inscribed AP 21/25 in pencil (aside from the edition of 250), from New York: Eight Contemporary Artists Celebrate Their City, published by New York Graphic Society, Ltd., Waterbury, Connecticut, the full sheet, framed.
Sheet 22 x 29 3/4 inches; 559 x 756 mm.
New York School painter Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation. His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art. Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum.
