Alex Katz - Hatje Cantz

The back cover of a bright yellow book standing upright against a white background. A quote by Alex Katz is printed in black text near the top. At the bottom right, a barcode, ISBN, and website address are visible.

An angled view of a thick, black hardcover book titled Alex Katz: Prints, Catalogue Raisonné, 1947–2023, against a white background. The cover features a large, high-contrast illustration of a woman's face in white with black line details and her eyes closed. The spine of the book is also visible.

An open art book with a yellow spine laid flat on a white surface. The left page features a large, stylized portrait of a woman with blonde hair and light blue eyes. The right page contains black text on a white background, with the title A Conversation with Alex Katz.

An open art book with a yellow spine lies on a white surface, showing two portraits. The left page has a large painting of a woman with dark hair wearing a red hat and coat. The right page features a smaller painting of two blonde women, with descriptive text below both images.

An open book showing the table of contents on the right-hand page against a white background. The heading reads Contents. The entries, in a light brown serif font, list sections such as Preface, Acknowledgments, several interviews and conversations with the artist Alex Katz, essays, a Catalogue, Biography, Bibliography, and Index, with their corresponding page numbers.

A two-page spread from an art book or catalog, pages 156 and 157. The pages feature five artworks by Alex Katz from 1977 and 1978, mostly portraits of women in a stylized, graphic manner, along with one small print of a dog. Each image is numbered and accompanied by a block of descriptive text.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left is a black-and-white print titled Self-Portrait, 1978, showing a smiling man with dark hair. On the right are three colorful prints from the Twilight Series, 1978, depicting dark tree silhouettes against a twilight sky. Both pages include descriptive text about the artworks.

A two-page spread from an art book displaying Alex Katz's 1993/94 series of five serigraphs, Pas de Deux. Each vertical print features a stylized, graphic portrait of a different couple, dressed in formal wear and interacting against a black background. The prints are arranged horizontally across the two pages, with descriptive text about the series located below the images on the right-hand page.

A two-page spread from an art book showcasing sculptures by Alex Katz. The left page features two versions of a piece titled Chance, showing three flat, cutout figures of women in swimsuits holding beach balls. The right page displays a piece titled Ada, a cutout of a woman's head with black hair mounted on a tall, thin black pole, described as a weather vane. Each artwork is accompanied by descriptive text.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page shows a large print titled Blue Umbrella 2, a stylized portrait of a woman in a red headscarf holding a blue umbrella in the rain. The right page displays two artworks with accompanying text. At the top is December (Ada), a portrait of a woman in a winter hat and scarf. Below is Dancer 2, a cutout sculpture of a dancer in a light blue dress with one arm raised.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page, numbered 400, displays three colorful paintings of flowers: purple tulips against a pink background, and two paintings of red dogwood flowers. The right page, 401, shows a larger landscape painting titled Reflection 2, depicting a building and trees reflected in water. Each artwork is accompanied by a text description.

A two-page spread from an art catalogue featuring four artworks with captions. Three are tall, black-and-white linocut portraits, each showing half of a woman's face against a black background. The fourth is a color woodcut of yellow flowers with green leaves on a black background.

Alex Katz

Prints: Catalogue Raisonné, 1947-2022

€ 148.00

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By (artist): Alex Katz

Edited by: Gunhild Bauer, Klaus Albrecht Schröder

March 2023, 480 Pages, 915 Photos

Hardcover with Dust Jacket

248mm x 310mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5394-4

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s— influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York scene as well as idyllic landscapes. Printmaking plays an equally central role in Katz's work. He uses lithographs, etchings, silkscreens, woodcuts and linocuts to reproduce, reflect and further reduce his bold aesthetic, while retaining the radiant color characteristic for his paintings. Since the first edition in 2011, Katz has almost doubled his output of prints—this timely new edition includes his complete prints, cutout editions, artists' books, and also lists his works of applied art like book illustrations and public art projects. New essays and interviews with the artist give profound insights into the work of one of the foremost American artists of the present.

When ALEX KATZ (*1927, New York City) began his artistic career in the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the reigning style. Ahead of his time, he created stylized portraits against flat, monochrome backgrounds. From 1965 onwards, he embarked on a prolific career in printmaking, exhausting all its possibilities: from traditional craftsmanship to state-of-the-art reproduction techniques.