Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Red House
Medium: Archival Pigment Print on Crane Museo Max 365 GSM Fine Art Paper
Year: 2016
Image Size: 34 3/8" x 36"
Frame Size: 38" x 40" x 1.5"
Edition: 20/70
Publisher: Lococo Fine Art
Signature: Signed and numbered in graphite on front lower left
Documentation: Gallery Certificate of Authenticity
Literature: Catalogue Raisonné No. 598
Alex Katz's "Red House", 2016, presents a compressed, high-contrast view of a domestic structure set against dense green foliage, exemplifying the artist's late-career command of flattened color and graphic simplification. The house's saturated red facade is rendered in broad, unmodulated planes, asserting itself as a solid, almost architectural anchor within the surrounding vegetation, which Katz treats with the same economy of form he applies throughout his landscape work. Sharp passages of shadow cut across the composition, introducing structure and depth while reinforcing the print's overall graphic clarity. The result recalls Katz's longstanding interest in distilling a fleeting visual impression—captured quickly from direct observation—into a stable, monumental image built from essential shapes and bold, contrasting hues.
Produced as an archival pigment print [giclee] on Crane Museo Max 365 GSM Fine Art Paper, this work is part of an edition of 70, with the present example numbered 20/70. It is signed and numbered in graphite at the lower left and was published by Lococo Fine Art. The image measures 34 3/8 by 36 inches, with a frame size of 38 by 40 by 1 1/2 inches. The work is documented in the artist's catalogue raisonne as No. 598 and is accompanied by a gallery Certificate of Authenticity.
"Red House" reflects Katz's continued engagement with landscape as a vehicle for formal reduction, translating a specific, observed moment into an image of graphic permanence characteristic of his output in the 2010s.
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About Alex Katz
Alex Katz [born 1927] is an American painter renowned for his large-scale portraits and landscapes rendered in flat, simplified color fields. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Katz studied at Cooper Union before attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where exposure to plein-air painting profoundly shaped his approach to color and form. Working against the dominant currents of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, Katz developed a distinctive figurative style characterized by bold outlines, minimal shading, and monumental scale.
Katz is best known for his portraits of family, friends, and the New York art community, most notably his wife and enduring muse, Ada. His paintings distill the human figure into clean, graphic forms, drawing comparisons to billboard advertising and commercial art while maintaining a sophisticated painterly sensibility. Beyond portraiture, Katz has produced an extensive body of landscape paintings depicting the Maine countryside near his longtime summer studio, as well as urban scenes of New York City.
Over a career spanning more than six decades, Katz has been credited with anticipating key elements of Pop Art and influencing generations of contemporary figurative painters. His work is held in major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, which mounted a career retrospective in 2022. Katz continues to paint and exhibit internationally, remaining an influential figure in postwar and contemporary American art. His flat, precise style has left a lasting mark on portraiture and figurative painting worldwide.
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