Alex Katz Art
American, b. 1927
Flat color and minimal forms contrast the often monumental scales of the paintings by Alex Katz through which he creates portraits and landscapes of deceptive simplicity. Although the signature stark style that defines his prints and other work is now recognizable at a glance, it took him a decade to develop. During that time, he has said he destroyed hundreds of paintings.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian émigré parents, Katz’s family moved to Queens when he was a baby and that is where his family’s passion for the arts supported his early creative interests. In 1946, he enrolled at the Cooper Union in Manhattan where he studied painting under Morris Kantor. While he was influenced by the bold colors and hard edges of modernism, he shifted away from the then-dominant Abstract Expressionism movement to figurative scenes of life that have an inherent cool in their pared-down approach. Especially impactful were Katz’s summer studies between 1949 and 1950 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, a place where, as he later wrote: “I tried plein air painting and found my subject matter and a reason to devote my life to painting.”
Katz’s first solo show was in 1954 at Roko Gallery in New York. He experimented over the course of the following years with collage and painting on aluminum sheets, with his work in the 1960s drawing inspiration from film and advertising. In the 1970s, Katz expanded into portrait groups that regularly depicted the cultural scene of New York; in the 1980s, he extended his focus to fashion and its supermodels. Since the late 1950s, an enduring muse for his portraits has been his wife, Ada, while others have painted friends and famous figures. The intimate closeness of the frequently cropped faces in Katz’s portraits exudes a sense of tension with the subjects’ enigmatic expressions and planes of color.
In the 1960s, Katz collaborated with American dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor on sets and costumes. His concentration on landscapes emerged in the late 1980s, with atmospheric night views joining his practice, which had previously been defined by bright colors. Always finding new perspectives on his work, he has explored using iPhone photographs as the basis for large-scale compositions in recent years.
Katz’s prolific career has spanned sculpture, prints and public art along with his paintings and drawings, and his works can be found in the collections of leading museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art. He has had over 250 solo exhibitions around the world and continues to be acclaimed. In 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened a major retrospective of his art.
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Artist: Alex Katz
June Ekman's Class: Judy
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
June Ekman's Class: Judy, 1972
aquatint, edition of 50
11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Aquatint
June Ekman's Class: Fran
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
June Ekman's Class: Fran, 1972
aquatint, edition of 50
11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Aquatint
June Ekman's Class: Harmony
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
June Ekman's Class: Harmony, 1972
aquatint, edition of 50
11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Aquatint
Twilight I
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Twilight I, 1978
silkscreen, edition of 50
42 x 33 in. (106.7 x 83.8 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Sunset: Lake Wesserunsett II
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Sunset: Lake Wesserunsett II, 1972
screenprint, edition of 60
30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Sunny
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Sunny, 1974
aquatint and drypoint, edition of 52
15 x 22 3/8 in. (38.1 x 56.8 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Red Sails
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Red Sails, 1973
silkscreen, edition of 60
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Still Life
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Still Life, 1974
aquatint and drypoint, edition of 62
22 1/8 x 30 3/4 in. (56.2 x 78.1 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Night: William Dunas Dancers No. 4
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Night: William Dunas Dancers No. 4, 1983
lithograph, edition of 125
25 x 31 1/4 in. (63.5 x 79.4 cm)
Category
1980s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph
Night: William Dunas Dancers No. 2
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Night: William Dunas Dancers No. 2, 1983
color lithograph, edition of 100
25 x 31 1/4 in. (63.5 x 79.4 cm)
Category
1980s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph
Night: William Dunas Dancers No. 1
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Night: William Dunas Dancers No. 1, 1983
color lithograph, edition of 100
25 x 31 1/4 in. (63.5 x 79.4 cm)
Category
1980s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph
Caroline
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Caroline, 1977
lithograph, edition of 60
27 x 21 in. (68.6 x 53.3 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph
Black Brook
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Black Brook, 1992
aquatint, Edition of 50 (Printers Proof available)
30 1/4 x 67 in. (76.8 x 170.2 cm)
Alex Katz has painted scenes of the countryside in the American stat...
Category
1990s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Aquatint
Ada Four Times #4
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Ada Four Times, 1979-80
silkscreen and lithograph, edition of 120
30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Ada Four Times #3
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Ada Four Times #3, 1979-80
silkscreen and lithograph, edition of 120
30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Ada Four Times #2
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Ada Four Times #2, 1979-80
silkscreen and lithograph, edition of 120
30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Ada Four Times #1
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Ada Four Times #1, 1979-80
silkscreen and lithograph, edition of 120
30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen, Lithograph
Ariel 2
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and enigmatic image rendered as an original screenprint created in 2021, Ariel 2 is hand-signed and numbered by Alex Katz, the artwork measuring 60 x 37 in. (153 x 94 cm)...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Ada (Purple)
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
With the simplest of line akin to a drawing by Matisse, Alex Katz renders Ada (Purple) in elegant simplicity. Created in 2022 as an original one-color woodcut in an edition of just ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Woodcut
Ada (Black)
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
With the simplest of line akin to a drawing by Matisse, Alex Katz renders Ada (Black) in elegant simplicity. Created in 2022 as an original one-color woodcut in an edition of just 7...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Woodcut
Coca Cola Girl #5
By Alex Katz
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The Coca-Cola series by Aex Katz pays homage to the bold and daring women depicted in Coca-Cola's advertising images from the 1890's to the 1960's.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Vivien in White Coat
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Alex Katz
Vivien in White Coat
2021
Silkscreen
54 x 39 in.
Edition of 60
Pencil signed and numbered
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Ariel 4 and 5
By Alex Katz
Located in 'S-GRAVENHAGE, ZH
Medium: 2 color wood cut prints on Somerset white 300 GSM paper
Size: 46 x 40 cm each
Edition of 60
Both prints are signed and numbered
Category
2010s Alex Katz Art
Materials
Woodcut
Big Smile (Vivien)
By Alex Katz
Located in 'S-GRAVENHAGE, ZH
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Size: 35 x 70 inches (89 x 178 cm)
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered
Category
2010s Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink
Laura 3
By Alex Katz
Located in 'S-GRAVENHAGE, ZH
Medium: Two-color etching on Saunders Waterford, HP, High White, 425 gsm, fine art paper
Size: 42 x 42 inches (107 x 107 cm)
Signed and numbered
Edition of 50
Category
2010s Alex Katz Art
Materials
Etching
Straw Hat Vivien
By Alex Katz
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Alex Katz work consists of a green background with the portrait of a woman with dark hair dressed in white wearing a straw hat. This original silkscreen print on paper is guaranteed authentic and is hand signed by the artist.
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: "Straw Hat Vivien...
Category
2010s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Yellow Flags 3
By Alex Katz
Located in ZEIST, UT
Ales Katz- Yellow Flags 3
Archival pigment inks on Crane Museo Max 365 gsm fine art paper
Signed and numbered in pencil
Paper size: 83.8 × 55.9 cm (33 ×...
Category
2010s Modern Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Purple tulips 2
By Alex Katz
Located in ZEIST, UT
Ales Katz- Purple Tulips 2
Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper, 2021
Edition: 100
Signed and numbered (41/100) in pen...
Category
2010s Modern Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink
Coca Cola Girls #4
By Alex Katz
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The Coca-Cola Girls series by Alex Katz is an homage to the bold and daring girls depicted in Coca Cola’s advertising images from the 1890s to the 1960s that celebrate an idealized A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
White Shirt (William)
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment print on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm
Category
2010s Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alex Katz 'Big Smile (Vivian)'
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz (born 1927)
Big Smile (Vivien)
2021
Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
35 x 70 inches (89 x 178 cm)
Edition o...
Category
2010s Modern Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Alex Katz 'Big Smile (Vivian)'
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz (born 1927)
Big Smile (Vivien)
2021
Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
35 x 70 inches (89 x 178 cm)
Edition o...
Category
2010s Modern Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
White Roses -Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition, Katz, Blue
By Alex Katz
Located in Zug, CH
Alex Katz, Yellow Tulips
Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition
Edition of 50
122,5 x 195,7 cm (48.2 x 77 in.)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
Unframed
“Yellow Tulips” is part of the famous flower painting series by Alex Katz. The aesthetics of flowers such as flags, tulips, and roses has been continuously explored by the artist throughout his career.
"I generally start with oil sketches, because I can paint more quickly than I can draw. In this way I try to capture the sensation of what I’m doing, getting into the unconscious and creating the images, and then figuring out what I did." — Alex Katz
Katz has been painting flowers since the 1960s, often during his summer residencies in Maine. The cropped, flattened composition displays a debt to Japanese woodblock art printing. The American artist is well-known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and unmodulated colours are now seen as precursors of Pop Art.
"Yellow Tulips" is another of Katz's wonderfully bright exploration of nature and the landscape. He represents the volumes and colors created by the natural light, this artwork breathes nature, the radiant yellow delights the vision against the limitless black background.
The painting “Tulips 4” which this edition is based on belongs to the Collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
ALEX KATZ
Alex Katz (American, born 1927) is the outstanding protagonist of figurative painting and one of our era's most acclaimed artists. In the late 1950s, the artist began to develop his mature style, characterized by elegance, simplicity, and stylized abstraction, which typifies his entire production. Alex Katz’s paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Goldenrod
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Edition of 100
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Peonies
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Edition of 100
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Azaleas on Yellow
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Edition of 100
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Purple Tulips 2
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Dogwood 2
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Edition of 100
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Dogwood 1
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Edition of 100
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Purple Tulips 1
By Alex Katz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks on Innova 315 gsm paper
Edition of 100
Category
2010s Abstract Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Shirt
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Created in 2021 as a suite of six individual archival pigment prints, Alex Katz's White Shirt prints are each hand-signed and numbered in pencil. Each measuring 26 x 15 in. (66 x 38 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reflection 2
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Created in 2021 as an archival pigment print, Alex Katz's Reflection 2 is hand-signed and numbered. Measuring 47 x 39 1/2 in. (119 x 100.3 cm.), unframed, this artwork is from the ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Big Smile (Vivien)
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Created in 2021 as an archival pigment print, Alex Katz's Big Smile (Vivien) is hand-signed and numbered. Measuring 35 x 70 in. (89 x 178 cm.), unframed, thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Straw Hat Vivien
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
Technical Information:
Alex Katz
Straw Hat Vivien
2021
Silkscreen
80 x 44 in.
Edition of 60
Pencil signed and numbered
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Dancer III
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Created by Alex Katz in 2019, Dancer 3 is an original color screenprint measuring 60 x 36 inches (153 x 92 cm), unframed. The artwork is hand-signed by the artist in pencil, and num...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Ariel
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Ariel
2021
Silkscreen on Saunders Waterford 425 gsm fine art paper
Diptych 60 x 37 inches (153 x 94 cm) each
Edition of 60
Suite of 2: $32,000
Single print also available. Please c...
Category
2010s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Vivien with Hat
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Alex Katz
Vivien with Hat
2021
Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag fine art paper
36 x 48 in.
Edition of 150
Pencil signed & numbered
Accompani...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sasha 1
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Alex Katz
Sasha 1
2016
Archival pigment inks on Crane Museo Max paper
32 x 16 in.
Edition of 90
Pencil signed & numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dancer II, Alex Katz
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Created as a three-dimensional cut-out on aluminum by Alex Katz in 2020, Dancer II is printed the same on each side with UV-cured archival inks and mounted on an aluminum base. With...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink
Dancer I, Alex Katz
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Created by Alex Katz in 2019, Dancer I is an original screenprint in colors, hand-signed by the artist in pencil, and numbered, measuring 60 x 36 in. (153 x 92 cm), unframed, from t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Screen
Black Dress 1 (Yi) - 21st Century, Alex Katz, Figurative Sculpture, Woman
By Alex Katz
Located in Köln, DE
The "Black Dress" sculptures by Alex Katz are more than figurative sculptures. They are a homage to elegance, fashion and the female body. This cut-out is made from powder-coated alu...
Category
2010s Alex Katz Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Black Dress 3 (Oona) - 21st Century, Alex Katz, Figurative Sculpture, Woman
By Alex Katz
Located in Köln, DE
The "Black Dress" sculptures by Alex Katz are more than figurative sculptures. They are a homage to elegance, fashion and the female body. This cut-out is made from powder-coated alu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Other Medium
Black Dress 4 (Sharon) - 21st Century, Alex Katz, Figurative Sculpture, Woman
By Alex Katz
Located in Köln, DE
The "Black Dress" sculptures by Alex Katz are more than figurative sculptures. They are a homage to elegance, fashion and the female body. This cut-out is made from powder-coated alu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Other Medium
Sunrise
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz82.6 x 67
Sunrise, 1996
woodcut, edition of 1 TP
32 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (82.6 x 67.3 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Woodcut
Face of the Poet
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Face of the Poet, 1979
suite of 14 aquatints, edition of 25
14 1/2 x 19 in. (36.8 x 48.3 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Alex Katz Art
Materials
Aquatint
Twilight, from Sunrise Sunset Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Alex Katz
Twilight, from Sunrise Sunset Portfolio
2020
Archival Pigment inks on Innova etching cotton rag 315 gsm paper
40 x 88 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sunset 3, from Sunrise Sunset Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Alex Katz
Sunset 3, from Sunrise Sunset Portfolio
2020
Archival Pigment inks on Innova etching cotton rag 315 gsm paper
39 x 70 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sunset 2, from Sunrise Sunset Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
Technical Information
Alex Katz
Sunset 2, from Sunrise Sunset Portfolio
2020
Archival Pigment inks on Innova etching cotton rag 315 gsm paper
42 x 46 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Alex Katz Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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