ALEX
KATZ
COOL, FLAT, FAST:
THE MASTERWORKS OF ALEX KATZ
At 95 years of age, Alex Katz continues to ride the ever-heightening crest of his career, most notably with the current highly acclaimed sweeping retrospective occupying the entirety of the Guggenheim Museum in his home town of New York City, alongside record-crushing sales at every leading auction house.
ALEX KATZ Bathing Cap (Ada), 2012 Silkscreen in 35 colors 42 3/4 x 45 inches Edition of 76 $18,000
"I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it,
and so complicated you can't figure it out."
- Alex Katz
ALEX KATZ Rose Bud, 2019 Archival pigment inks on Crane Museo Max 365 gsm fine art paper 44 x 33 inches Edition of 100 $17,000
At times deceptively simple, Katz’s works are the product of a practice as involved and rich as any renaissance painter yet still contains the immediacy of song, commercial design, advertisement, and fashion — all of which Katz claims as sources of inspiration. The cool detachment of his restrained imagery built of “faster than you can think” flat planes of color is now recognized as a fundamental precursor of Pop Art, just one reason he is among the most cited artistic influences of the several generations of contemporary artists that succeed him.
ALEX KATZ Vivien in Black Hat, 2010 Screenprint in colors, on Rives BFK paper 28 3/4 x 40 inches Edition of 75
POR
Discovering painting from life early in his education, Katz struck on the subject matters that would continually guide his work: portraiture, landscape, nature, and light. These gave him a perfect excuse, a passkey, into spending intensely focused time with the people most important to him (friends, family, and the poets, visual artists, dancers, and other cultural pioneers of New York) as well as the pine forests and summer blooms of the remote natural environment of Maine that he would return to three months of the year in a rejuvenating cycle. Seen together, these works create unexpected harmonics causing the New York society that Katz captures to be seen through an ecological lens of symbiosis and rhythm, while conversely giving each painted blossom and golden-hour vista the individuality of a portrait.
ALEX KATZ Sara, 2012 38-color silkscreen on 2-ply museum board 39 x 41 inches Edition of 60 $16,000
It is with great pride that Hamilton Selway exhibits a selection of Katz’s prints from the last two decades, offering the west coast an in-person glimpse at the master’s practice as the world celebrates a lifetime of luminary achievement in painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
For a full catalog of Alex Katz works, please inquire directly or email us at gallery@hamiltonselway.com.
ALEX KATZ Purple Tulips 1, 2021 from The Flowers Portfolio Archival pigment inks on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper 32 x 47 inches Edition of 100 POR
ALEX KATZ Azaleas on Yellow, 2021 from The Flowers Portfolio Archival pigment inks on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper 47 x 34 inches Edition of 100 POR
ALEX KATZ Peonies, 2021 from The Flowers Portfolio Archival pigment inks on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper 47 x 34 inches Edition of 100 POR
