Aquatint with lithograph in colors on Somerset Satin paper
USA, 1989
Alex Katz (b. 1927) – American New York School artist
Signed in pencil and numbered ‘5/50’
Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Full margins
Dimensions: 39 ¼ x 29 in. (99.7 x 73.7 cm.)
Very good condition
Estimate $4,000-$6,000

For years Alex Katz has returned to Maine where he continues to paint the landscape near his house. He has always been fascinated by the challenge of painting water. In this work, the autumn leaves become yellow triangles dramatically set against a black background. Katz’s masterful rendering informs the viewer that this is a watery surface, without ever depicting the water directly. Now in his 90s, Katz continues to gain new audiences and prices for his works have increased dramatically over the past five years.

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.

Condition

In overall good condition.

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