The large-format portrait Ariel 3 in black and white tones features Ariel Veith, a model whom Alex Katz has portrayed frequently. Ariel is one of the artist’s many muses from his New York environment. Ariel also exists as a wall sculpture. Ariel is an exemplary work by Alex Katz – this print features Katz’s clean lines and minimal approach to portraiture, and the monochrome orange background that is typical of his compositions. It is made as a woodcut, Alex Katz does all the plates for his woodcuts and linocuts still himself.

Alex Katz / Pioneer of Pop Art

Alex Katz is especially famous for his figurative paintings: The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he was born in New York in 1927. As a pioneer of Pop Art, he always concentrated on the essentials and early on he began to explore simplified forms and contrasting color compositions. His art is diverse, but always has beauty as its central theme. The artist can now look back on more than 200 solo and around 500 group exhibitions; his diverse works are part of over 100 collections worldwide. Alex Katz lives and works in New York and Maine.