By Alex Katz
Located in Zug, CH
Alex Katz, Yellow Tulips
Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition
Edition of 50 + 5 PP + 15 AP
122,5 x 195,7 cm (48.2 x 77 in.)
Signed and numbered on the front
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher (Lococo)
PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the images. All edition available come from the edition /50
The pictures are only for illustrative reasons, the work is offered 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...
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