1514825

Alex Katz, Dance Portfolio of 4 Lithographs #1514825

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Alex Katz,  Dance Portfolio of 4 Lithographs #1514825
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Artist: Alex Katz

Title: Night: William Dunas Dance I-IV

Year: 1979

Medium: Four Lithographs, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 100, Image II numbered from an edition of 125


Paper Size 28" x 30" each



ALEX KATZ (1927- )




Alex Katz is a leading figure painter of the new realism movement in contemporary art. He is best known for his realistic portraits of friends and family, notable for their relaxed attitudes and uncomplicated bearing.




Katz was born in New York City, and studied art at the Cooper Union from 1945 to 1949. In the late 1950s, he found himself among a growing number of artists dissatisfied with the then-dominant stream of abstract expressionism, with its emphasis on formal abstraction.




The rebellion against abstract expressionism, which continued through the 1960s, took several forms. The most celebrated was the pop art of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and others, who sought to mine the motherlodes of media imagery and consumer culture for the content of their art.




In contrast to the pop artists, with their emphasis on the consumer icon, a number of painters in the mid-to-late 1 950s, including Larry Rivers and Alex Katz, had begun to find their own inspiration. in the literal rendition of human figures.




Katz's paintings from the late 1950s to the present have been characterized by such literal, yet expressive, portrayals of human figures. Stylistically, his figures are ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1979</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:28</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Alex Katz, Dance Portfolio of 4 Lithographs</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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