Color screenprint on wove paper
USA, 1996
Alex Katz (b. 1927) – American New York School artist
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left ‘Alex Katz 51/75’
Published by Simca Print Artists, Inc., New York with blindstamp lower right
Full sheet printed
Dimensions: 46 ½ x 30 ? in. (118.1 x 78.8 cm.)
Estimate $3,000-$5,000

American figural artist Alex Katz transforms his wife, and muse, Ada, into an iconic image of high style in this screenprint. By generalizing her features, the work is reduced to formal properties of light, color and scale. Katz’s portraits reveal his ongoing pursuit to depict social interactions and language.

Executed in 1996, this color screenprint on white wove paper is signed and numbered fifty-one from an edition of seventy-five. The work was published by Simca Print Artists, Inc., with their blindstamp lower right. The full sheet is printed, measuring 46 ½ x 30 ? inches. In overall good condition with solid consistent colors but with a small, less than inch soft crease in black at upper right sheet edge and ink loss at lower margin.

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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