There is even a complete book that deals with Night Time Paintings by Alex Katz. Several paintings and prints were created by Alex Katz at night and twilight. The book explores the elements of what might be called “black” or “night” paintings, focusing on recent paintings that at least have night as their subject. Cityscape, or Nightscape, by Alex Katz, as an original print, provides an ideal introduction to this topic. To what extent are these paintings really about night or blackness? How do they relate to other works, even portraits, that seem to project the quality of night in their evocation of stillness or a sense of distance, but which overtly represent neither blackness nor night? These and other critical questions about the nature of Katz’s work are addressed in Donald Kuspit’s insightful text.

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.