Alex Katz Homage to Degas / Pigmentprint / signed, numbered / edition 100

Year: 2020
Format: 178 x 89 cm / 70.1 x 35 inch
Material: Paper
Method: Pigmentprint
Edition: 100
Other: Handsigned and numbered.

Alex Katz Homage to Degas / Pigmentprint / signed, numbered/ Edition 100
Alex Katz Homage to Degas signing

Alex Katz Homage to Degas / Pigmentprint / signed, numbered / edition 100

Year: 2020
Format: 178 x 89 cm / 70.1 x 35 inch
Material: Paper
Method: Pigmentprint
Edition: 100
Other: Handsigned and numbered.

A dancing female nude on a uniform lime-green background represents what Katz called "homage to Degas". It seems appropriate to the artist to refer to Degas, since his own depictions of groups of figures, such as those of Degas, tend to be set at an angle to the picture plane.

Alex Katz – Homage to Degas

Year: 2020
Format: 178 x 89 cm / 70.1 x 35 inch
Material: Paper
Method: Pigmentprint
Edition: 100
Other: Handsigned and numbered.

Artwork Homage to Degas

A dancing female nude on a uniform lime-green background represents what Alex Katz called “homage to Degas”. It seems appropriate to the artist to refer to Edgar Degas, since his own depictions of groups of figures, such as those of Degas, tend to be set at an angle to the picture plane.

Both Alex Katz and Edgar Degas shared a keen awareness of photographically inspired camera angles and details in order to increase the diagonal tension and lateral balance in their compositions. However, Katz is the more “classical” of the two in the sense that he has also often chosen the full frontal view, in which the subject is almost confrontational, parallel to the picture plane. This panning back and forth between the archaic-tectonic and the photographic slash is one of Katz’s characteristic strategies for keeping and renewing his familiar representational object matter (mostly family, friends, living in landscapes) abstract. In the depiction of naked dancers he privileges the straightforward approach and lends the series as a whole a frieze-like quality.

Method

For many of his prints, Alex Katz has relied on the modern technique of pigment printing, which is characterized in particular by its ease of processing – as in his work Homage to Degas.

Material

Alex Katz uses 315 gsm paper in his work Homage to Degas Innova Etching Cotton Rag.

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.

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Alex Katz Homage to Degas / Pigmentprint / signed, numbered / edition 100


Year: 2020
Format: 178 x 89 cm / 70.1 x 35 inch
Material:Paper
Method:Pigmentprint
Edition:100
Other:Handsigned and numbered.
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