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“Sunset 1” by Alex Katz, a Brooklyn-born figurative painter, renowned for his use of bold solid color and streamlined form. This piece, from the Sunrise Sunset portfolio, masterfully displays Katz’s signature ability to distill a scene to its most fundamental aesthetic elements; against a soft gradient of muted blues and yellows, a jagged, disintegrating black form suggests trees swaying in the wind. The piece recalls the flatness and cropped composition of Japanese wood-block prints, a major influence of Katz’s, and shares a similar emotional resonance in its stark simplicity. Despite uncharacteristically verging on the abstract, the piece remains distinctly within Katz’s virtuosic oeuvre. Measuring 55 inches tall by 32 inches wide, the limited edition print is hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
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American painter Alex Katz is renowned worldwide for his paintings, prints, and sculptures. His soothing aesthetic features rich colors, planar compositions, and streamlined forms. His work incorporates the clarity and accessibility of Pop Art in a unique manner that does not belong to any artistic movement or school. Katz’s iconic portraits and oral landscapes have achieved monumental commercial success and paved the way for younger artists like Julian Opie. Solo exhibitions devoted to Katz’s work have been held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in Spain, among others. He has also received several honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently lives and works in New York and Maine.
