Linocut on wove paper
USA, 2007
Alex Katz (b. 1927) – American New York School artist
Signed in pencil and numbered ‘P.P. 2/3’
Aside from the edition of 30
Full sheet printed
Dimensions: 36 ¼ x 71 in. (92.1 x 180.3 cm.)
Very good condition
Estimate $1,000-$2,000

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

Extremely minor soiling, otherwise in overall good condition.

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