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Alex Katz

Alex Katz

United States • 1927 • 223 followers
Featured in: Master Artists

People are always saying what you should do. I never pay any attention to that.

Nationality

American

Categories

Printmakers

Artistic movements

Pictorial Genre

Themes

Portrait, Pop Art, Floral

Biography

Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927 from Russian parents. In 1946, Katz entered The Cooper Union Art School in Manhattan, a prestigious college of art, architecture, and engineering.

Alex Katz is a figurative artist. He is known for paintings, sculptures and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally. His paintings are divided almost equally into the genres of portraiture and landscape.

Katz's first one-person show was held at the Roko Gallery in 1954. Katz had begun to develop greater acquaintances with the New York School and their allies in the other arts. From 1955 to 1959, usually following a day of painting, Katz made small collages of figures in landscapes from hand-colored strips of delicately cut paper. In the late 1950s, he moved towards greater realism in his paintings. He embraced monochrome backgrounds, which would become a defining characteristic of his style, anticipating Pop Art and separating him from gestural figure painters and the New Perceptual Realism. In 1965, he also embarked on a prolific career in printmaking. Katz would go on to produce many editions in lithography, etching, silkscreen, woodcut and linoleum cut.

Alex Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions internationally since 1951. Katz has received numerous accolades throughout his career. In 2007, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy Museum, New York. In 2005, Katz was the honored artist at the Chicago Humanities Festival's Inaugural Richard Gray Annual Visual Arts Series. The same year, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Colgate University, Hamilton, New York— his second Honorary Doctorate, following one from Colby College, Maine, in 1984.

Works by Alex Katz can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Most notably, those in America include: Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Brooklyn Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Des Moines Art Center; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and many others.

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Print, Olivia, Alex Katz

Olivia

Print . 150 x 102 cm Print . 59.1 x 40.2 inch

£14,170

Print, Sunrise 2, Alex Katz

Sunrise 2

Print . 65 x 44 x 0.1 cm Print . 25.6 x 17.3 x 0 inch

£11,012

Print, Yellow Tulips, Alex Katz

Yellow Tulips

Print . 122.5 x 195 x 0.01 cm Print . 48.2 x 76.8 x 0 inch

£39,854

Print, White Lotus 9, Alex Katz

White Lotus 9

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£8,414

Print, White Lotus 5, Alex Katz

White Lotus 5

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£7,971

Print, White Lotus 4, Alex Katz

White Lotus 4

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£8,414

Print, White Lotus 3, Alex Katz

White Lotus 3

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£8,414

Print, White Lotus 2, Alex Katz

White Lotus 2

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£7,971

Print, White Lotus 7, Alex Katz

White Lotus 7

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£7,971

Print, White Lotus 6, Alex Katz

White Lotus 6

Print . 81.3 x 121.9 cm Print . 32 x 48 inch

£7,971

Print, Spring 1, Alex Katz

Spring 1

Print . 183 x 89 x 0.1 cm Print . 72 x 35 x 0 inch

£9,439

Print, Ada 6, Alex Katz

Ada 6

Print . 137.2 x 102.9 cm Print . 54 x 40.5 inch

£13,285

Print, Freesia - Flowers, Alex Katz

Freesia - Flowers

Print . 121 x 90 cm Print . 47.6 x 35.4 inch

£15,056

Print, Homage to Degas, Alex Katz

Homage to Degas

Print . 89 x 178 cm Print . 35 x 70.1 inch

£13,285

Print, Sissel, 2006, Alex Katz

Sissel, 2006

Print . 50.8 x 59.7 x 0.1 cm Print . 20 x 23.5 x 0 inch

£5,491

Print, Purple Irises on White, Alex Katz

Purple Irises on White

Print . 61 x 76 x 0.05 cm Print . 24 x 29.9 x 0 inch

£12,389

Sculpture, Black Dress, Alex Katz

Black Dress

Sculpture . 63.5 x 21.6 x 7.9 cm Sculpture . 25 x 8.5 x 3.1 inch

£21,120

Print, House and Barn, 1954/2008, Alex Katz

House and Barn, 1954/2008

Print . 34.8 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 13.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

£4,428

Print, Figures on beach, Alex Katz

Figures on beach

Print . 34.8 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 13.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

£4,428

Print, Sunset Cove, Alex Katz

Sunset Cove

Print . 34.8 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 13.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

£4,428

Print, Harbor 10, 2006, Alex Katz

Harbor 10, 2006

Print . 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

£5,491

Print, Harbor, Alex Katz

Harbor

Print . 50.8 x 59.7 x 0.1 cm Print . 20 x 23.5 x 0 inch

£5,978

Sculpture, Black Dress, Alex Katz

Black Dress

Sculpture . 58.4 x 17.8 x 7.6 cm Sculpture . 23 x 7 x 3 inch

£21,120

Print, Wildflowers in Vase, Alex Katz

Wildflowers in Vase

Print . 50 x 34.8 x 0.1 cm Print . 19.7 x 13.7 x 0 inch

£4,313

Sculpture, Black Dress; Yvonne, Alex Katz

Black Dress; Yvonne

Sculpture . 63.5 x 20.3 x 7.9 cm Sculpture . 25 x 8 x 3.1 inch

£21,120

Print, Purple Irises on White, Alex Katz

Purple Irises on White

Print . 61 x 76 x 1 cm Print . 24 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch

£12,585

Print, Pink Kym, Alex Katz

Pink Kym

Print . 61 x 48.5 cm Print . 24 x 19.1 inch

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Print, Goldenrod, Alex Katz

Goldenrod

Print . 88.9 x 119.4 cm Print . 35 x 47 inch

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Print, Sasha 2, Alex Katz

Sasha 2

Print . 86.4 x 86.4 x 2.5 cm Print . 34 x 34 x 1 inch

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Print, Vincent, Alex Katz

Vincent

Print . 38.1 x 53.3 x 1.27 cm Print . 15 x 21 x 0.5 inch

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Print, Kate, Alex Katz

Kate

Print . 114.9 x 74 x 1 cm Print . 45.2 x 29.1 x 0.4 inch

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Print, Brisk Day Aquatint, Alex Katz

Brisk Day Aquatint

Print . 91 x 73 x 0.15 cm Print . 35.8 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Sunrise 1, Alex Katz

Sunrise 1

Print . 137 x 103 x 0.1 cm Print . 53.9 x 40.6 x 0 inch

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Print, Coca-Cola Girl 2, Alex Katz

Coca-Cola Girl 2

Print . 102 x 152 x 0.1 cm Print . 40.2 x 59.8 x 0 inch

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Print, Ariel 2, Alex Katz

Ariel 2

Print . 152.4 x 94 x 0.3 cm Print . 60 x 37 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Porcelain Beauty 4, Alex Katz

Porcelain Beauty 4

Print . 61 x 53 x 2 cm Print . 24 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch

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Print, Dancer 3, Alex Katz

Dancer 3

Print . 152 x 91 x 1 cm Print . 59.8 x 35.8 x 0.4 inch

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Print, Coca-Cola Girl 4, Alex Katz

Coca-Cola Girl 4

Print . 101.6 x 127 x 1 cm Print . 40 x 50 x 0.4 inch

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