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Alex Katz: Quick Things Passing

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A vertical composition featuring a light-grey and white tree trunk positioned slightly off-center. The trunk is surrounded by a lush canopy of vibrant green leaves, rendered in flat, rhythmic dabs of light and dark green paint. The perspective looks slightly upward into the bright foliage.

Selected Works

Alex Katz

A painting of a single figure doubled in a symmetrical composition: a man seated in a bright yellow folding chair on opposite sides of the canvas. He wears a rust-colored button-down shirt and white trousers, looking directly at the viewer from both positions. The background consists of sparse tan walls and two large windows, framing the repeated figure.

Alex Katz

A graphic painting featuring a single seagull soaring on the right side of the composition. The bird is rendered in shades of white and soft grey with a dark beak. The majority of the canvas is a flat, uniform expanse of bright blue.

Alex Katz

A large-scale preparatory line drawing on paper featuring a portrait of a woman set against a forest background. The woman, positioned in the lower center, wears a wide-brimmed hat and a coat with a scarf. The background is filled with the gestural, linear silhouettes of bare tree branches. A faint, light-blue grid is visible across the entire composition, and some of the lines are accented with blue charcoal or pastel.

Alex Katz

A stark, nocturnal painting of building windows glowing against a pitch-black background.

Alex Katz

A graphic painting of a dense forest in autumn or winter, dominated by brown and tan tones with thin, bare branches crisscrossing the frame.

Alex Katz

A flat, graphic style portrait of two figures. They are turned in opposite directions, the female figure in the foreground looks away from from the viewer and the figure in the background has closed eyes. Their faces are rendered with pale tones, with mint green highlights and an orange-red paint is used for their lips and shading around their eyes. The figure in the background wears a black shirt and they are set against a vibrant purple backdrop.