Title: David Salle and Janet Leonard (From the portfolio 'Pas de Deux ')
Artist: Alex Katz 1927 - PRESENT
Year: 1993
Technique: Color screenprint
Image Size: 36 x 19 7/8" image size
Signature: Signed in pencil, the lower left image
Edition: Numbered in pencil lower left P.P. 3/4 (outside the published edition of 150)
Reference: Klaus Albrecht Schroder 281; Pas de Deux 1
Paper: Arches Cover White wove
Publisher: Chalk and Vermilion Fine Arts, Greenwich, Connecticut
Condition: Excellent
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Description
This color screenprint is based on the painting "Pas de Deux", a multi-panel work commissioned by Esquire magazine in 1983. Each of the five sections depicts two figures, among them artists David Salle, Red Grooms, and Francesco Clemente. 'Pas de Deux, which translates from French as “step of two,” is a duet in which a male and a female dancer perform ballet steps together.

The subjects of the composition, the first in the series, are artist and filmmaker David Salle, who was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1952, and Janet Leonard, a friend of the artist. Katz highlights the nuances of physical human contact and the clothing of his subjects, who wear fashions designed by Norma Kamali.

This impression is a Printer's Proof, an impression given to the printers as partial compensation for their assistance. In this case, there were four printers assisting the artist.

Excellent