Alex Katz - Summer Exhibition to celebrate the 98th Birthday | FRANK FLUEGEL GALERIE

Summer is a graphic by the American artist Alex Katz. It was produced as a pigment print in 2024. Summer is part of the current Seasons series, which was also shown in an exhibition at MOMA New York last year.

The series of works by Alex Katz describes the changing seasons, from the bright colors of spring, summer and autumn to the barren palette of winter. Several artworks entitled Tree or Autumn have also been published. These works are part of a new series of more than 100 paintings that Alex Katz has been creating in his New York studio since 2022. The artist draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings, be it a lone tree he encounters on his way home from the movies on Houston Street or the lush landscape of Maine, where Alex Katz has spent his summers since 1954. The feeling of color is what I wanted, he says. It's the feeling of seeing.

This stunning print is testament to the artist's ever-evolving approach to interpreting the natural world. He often begins with photographs taken with an iPhone and smaller painted sketches, which he then transforms into large-scale compositions. In many cases, Katz removes the horizon, the absence of which, combined with the large scale of the paintings, creates an environment without a clear beginning or end. Katz often completes an entire painting in a single morning. Although he repeatedly revisits and reworks the theme of the four seasons, he approaches each canvas as a new project. Katz cheerfully describes his process as holding your breath and hoping for the best.

Alex Katz is particularly famous for his figurative paintings: The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was born in New York in 1927. As a pioneer of Pop Art, he always concentrated on the essentials and explored simplified forms and high-contrast color composition early on. His art is diverse, but always has beauty as its central theme. The artist can now look back on more than 200 solo and around 500 group exhibitions; his diverse works are part of over 100 collections worldwide. Alex Katz lives and works in New York and Maine.

The previous world record for a painting by American artist Alex Katz was set at Phillips auction house in London on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The painting Blue Umbrella I from 1972 achieved £3,375,000 or the equivalent of 4.1 million US dollars.

Alex Katz is an American painter, sculptor and graphic artist who became famous for his figurative paintings. His works are immediately recognizable by their colourful, two-dimensional style, which emerged as a reaction to the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. Although Alex Katz is widely recognized for his role as a precursor to the Pop Art movement, he has avoided being associated with any style or movement throughout his career.
Galerie Frank Fluegel has had the artist Alex Katz in its program from the beginning and has also pointed out for years that he has long been completely underestimated in Europe. Now that he is over 90 years old, his work is increasingly coming into focus.

Like Picasso, Katz develops more and more creativity with age and seems to be unstoppable in the creation of new works.
The previous auction record for one of his paintings is over US$ 1 million, which is still a long way from the prices of his American colleagues such as Tom Wesselmann or Andy Warhol.

Many Alex Katz exhibitions have been dedicated to his talent in recent years. Including at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. 2019 in Munich/Germany at the Museum Brandhorst; Daegu/Korea Daegu Art Museum, Paris/France Musée de L Orangerie. His artworks hang together with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Basquiat or KAWS in museums worldwide.

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The artcollector will find original artworks, graphics and one-of-a-kind pieces by hip artists such as Adam Handler, Alex Katz, David Shrigley, Kenny Scharf, Hunt Slonem, Orit Fuchs, Nathan Paddison, Fanny Brodar, Max Mavior, Keith Haring, David Gerstein, Hunt Slonem, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol or Julian Opie at fair market prices.

Of course, editions and prints by highly sought-after artists such as Harland Miller, Katherine Bernhardt, Tom Wesselmann, Sean Scully, Gerhard Richter, Ross Bleckner, Allen Jones, Thomas Ruff, and Mel Bochner are also on sale. The artists David Gerstein, Peter Doig, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin, Raqib Shaw, Derrick Adams and Robert Longo, who are popular with collectors worldwide, are also represented in the portfolio of the internationally renowned gallery.

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