The complete set of one aquatint, one lithograph and one woodcut in colors on wove papers
USA, 1990
Alex Katz (b. 1927) – American New York School artist
Each signed in pencil lower right ‘Alex Katz’
Each numbered in pencil lower left ‘50/150’ (there were also 15, 15 and 16 artists proofs respectively)
Published by Marlborough Graphics, New York (I & II) with the Alex Katz copyright stamp verso
Printed by Styria Studio, New York, with ink stamp verso (II)
Schröder 237-239
Full sheets printed; framed
Dimensions, each: 36 x 29 1/8 in. (91.4 x 74 cm.)
Very good condition
Estimate $12,000-$16,000

This set of three prints by figurative artist Alex Katz demonstrates the intimate nuances between three popular types of prints: aquatints, lithographs, and woodcuts. Each depicts the artist’s wide and muse, Ada, wearing a red coat to shield her from the wind of “brisk day,” the three prints contain subtle differences whether it be the drawn quality of the lithograph, broad areas of impressions from the woodcut, or the surface texture created from the aquatint process. Every viewing brings forth new information and details that add intrigue to the set.

Executed in 1990, each print in this complete set is each signed and numbered fifty from an edition of one hundred and fifty. Published by Marlborough Graphics and printed by Styria Studio, New York, the full sheets are printed. Each measures 36 x 29 1/8 inches. Condition: (I) Minor soft crease in hair, upper left; (II) with deckled edges; (III) minor soft handling creases upper left, slight rippling lower right. Otherwise each in overall good condition with no evidence of tears, toning, staining or repairs.

Alex Katz (American, b. 1927)

Renowned for his figurative paintings, New York School artist Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism. His works examine the nature of representing the three-dimensional world on two-dimensional canvas, creating portraits and landscapes. Born in Brooklyn, Katz studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His brightly colored paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture, in many ways prefiguring both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art which would arrive in the 1960s. Katz has held solo exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, at The Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in Spain, among other venues, and has received several honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently lives and works in New York and Maine.

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