As one of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Brooklyn-based artist Alex Katz has been painting portraits for nearly 50 years, synthesizing a kind of color field abstraction with realism. Often portraying people from the New York art and intellectual scene, Katz generalizes the features of his subjects …
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- Mint condition
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- Each signed, numbered and dated in pencil and contained in the original aluminum case.
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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.
- High auction record
- £3.4m, Phillips, 2019
- Blue chip
- Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
- Collected by major museums
- Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- 2021
- Portraits, Marlborough New York
- 2016
- Alex Katz, Serpentine Galleries
- 2015
- Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art
Black Dress (Suite of 9), 2015
As one of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Brooklyn-based artist Alex Katz has …
- Medium
- Condition
- Mint condition
- Signature
- Each signed, numbered and dated in pencil and contained in the original aluminum case.
- Certificate of authenticity
- Included
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.
- High auction record
- £3.4m, Phillips, 2019
- Blue chip
- Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
- Collected by major museums
- Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
