Alex Katz Sunrise 1 / Pigment Print / signed, numbered / edition 100

Year: 2022
Format: 102,9 x 137,2 cm / 40.2 x 53.9 inch
Material: Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Method: Pigment Print.
Edition: 90
Other: signed, numbered.

Alex Katz Sunrise 1 Portrait
Alex Katz Sunrise 1 Framed

Alex Katz Sunrise 1 / Pigment Print / signed, numbered / edition 100

Year: 2022
Format: 102,9 x 137,2 cm / 40.2 x 53.9 inch
Material: Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Method: Pigment Print.
Edition: 90
Other: signed, numbered.

Alex Katz – Sunrise 1 – Portrait with Purple Hat.

Year: 2022
Format: 102,9 x 137,2 cm / 40.2 x 53.9 inch
Material: Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Method: Pigment Print.
Edition: 90
Other: signed, numbered.

Alex Katz Sunrise 1 - Portrait with Purple Hat.

Sunrise 1 is a portrait by Alex Katz showing a young woman wearing a purple hat. Katz, who has long been interested in fashion – as in “Black Dress” – also often refers to upper-middle-class American sportswear, such as that found in Maine or the Hamptons. The light in Maine was also a revelation to him, as he writes in his memoir, “richer and darker than the light in the paintings of the Impressionists. It helped me break away from European painting and find my own look.” A few years later, Katz, artist Lois Dodd, and Katz’s then-wife Jean Cohen, an abstract painter he had met in school and married in 1950, bought a house (the yellow farmhouse that often appears in his paintings) and land in Lincolnville, Maine, a small coastal town near Camden. (They paid $1,200 for it.) The couple divorced in 1956, but Katz kept the house. Light, and especially Maine light – melting grass and leaves, hitting a lake with the blinding brightness of a mirror in the sun – was to become, one might think, the real subject of his landscapes. ALEX KATZ was born in 1927 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and grew up in St. Albans, Queens, where his family moved in 1928, just before the Depression began. His first aesthetic influences came from his parents, who had met in Russia during World War I and met again in New York City. His mother Sima was an actress, a star of the Yiddish theater on the Lower East Side who performed under the stage name Ella Marion. She was “very literary,” Katz says – she taught herself English with the help of a dictionary and an Edgar Allan Poe collection, whose poems she also had her four-year-old son recite – and had a biting sense of humor. In his memoirs, Katz recounts that he once told her as he was leaving in a hotel lobby, “It was awfully nice talking to you,” to which she replied, “I hope you don’t paint in clichés.” A pioneer of Pop Art, he always focused on the essentials and was an early adopter of simplified forms and high-contrast color composition. His art is diverse, but always has beauty as its central theme. The artist can now look back on more than 200 solo exhibitions as well as 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 Sunrise 1 / Pigment Print / signed, numbered / edition 100


Year: 2022
Format: 102,9 x 137,2 cm / 40.2 x 53.9 inch
Material:Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Method:Pigment Print.
Edition:90
Other:signed, numbered.
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