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Artist

Title

Dancer 2 (Cutout), rare aluminum sculpture

Description

Cutout from shaped powder-coated aluminum, printed the same on each side with UV-cured archival inks, clear coated and mounted to a 3/8 inch aluminum base. Artist's signature incised on top of base; edition number (30/60), artist's name, and publisher's (Lococo Fine Art, St. Louis) copyright stamped on underside. Sculpture size: 29 x 21 x 3 inches.

Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

About the Artist: Alex Katz (American, born 1927) is painter renowned for his large-scale depictions of landscapes, flowers, and portraits. Katz’s flattening of forms, simplification of detail, and alla-prima paint application, are trademarks of his work. “We compete for audiences, as artists. I'm competing with the Abstract Expressionist guys. I'll knock ‘em off the wall,” he once remarked. “If you put my work next to an aggressive A.E. painting, I'll eat most of ‘em up. And I want to compete with the kids. I'm there with the kids.” Born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, NY, as a young man, he attended the Cooper Union School of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. During the mid-1950s, Katz fell into the small circle of artists known as the 10th Street Scene, which included Lois Dodd, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter, among others. Over the following decades, he developed his hallmark stylization through experimenting with collaged paper and aluminum cutouts. Having achieved widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, his work serves as a beacon to younger generations of artists, including Elizabeth Peyton and Julian Opie. Katz maintains residences in Lincolnville, ME, and New York, NY. Today, his works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others.

Date

2020

Medium

Metalpoint

Edition

Signature

Signed In Plate

Dimensions

29 x 21 x 3 inches

Status

Available

Price

$17,600.00

Alex Katz

New York born and based artist Alex Katz is a figurative artist whose majority of work revolves around portraits and landscape paintings and prints. In the beginning of his career as an artist, Katz made small collages of people in landscape settings from delicately cutting hand coloured strips of paper. From there he moved on to create paintings which had a greater sense of realism. This was around 1950. It was in this time too that the artist became interested in portraiture, in which he often liked to portray his friends, and Ada, his wife and muse.