2008
Edition Size: 25
Sheet Size: 25-3/4 x 33-1/8 inches
Signed
Condition: Pristine
At Graphicstudio Alex Katz explored the cyanotype technique, a printmaking process first invented in 1841 and commonly used for architectural blueprint drawings. White Hat and Sunglasses is outlined in vivid blue bleed, where the print image is extended to the edges of the paper. This cartoonish preliminary sketch is of Ada and is revealed in the Prussian blue of the cyanotype process.
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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.
