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Portrait of a Poet

Alex Katz

Dovehouse Contemporary United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist

Alex Katz

Title

Portrait of a Poet

Description

Portrait of a Poet

By Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his distinctive large-scale portraits and landscapes characterized by bold colors, flat forms, and a sleek, stylized aesthetic, contributing significantly to the development of Pop Art and contemporary representational painting.

1970

Color lithograph

height 27 3/4 in

height 70.5 cm

Signed.

Date

1970

Medium

Color Linocut

Edition

N/A

Signature

Signed

Dimensions

70.5 cm

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

The Artist

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.