Property from a Bluffton, SC Private Collection

Description:

Alex Katz (NY/ME, b. 1927), Dog at Duck Trap, Lithograph, c. 1975-76, Lithograph in colors on wove paper, pencil signed and numbered 42/90 lower left, floating in a frame. Frame size: 35 5/8 in. x 49 1/4 in. Provenance: purchased in 1979 at a channel 13 fundraiser lot Y601 donated by Brooke Alexander, Inc.

Alex Katz is a contemporary American artist renowned for his large-format paintings of landscapes, flowers, and portraits. Born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, NY, as a young man, he attended the Cooper Union School of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. It was here that the artist first began to make plein-air paintings of the Maine landscape. During the mid-1950s, Katz fell into the small circle of artists known as the 10th Street Scene, which included Lois Dodd, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter, among others. Katz maintains residences in Lincolnville, ME, and New York, NY. Today, his works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, ME, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others. (Artnet.com)

Measurements: Height: of sheet 29 in. x Width: 43 in.

Condition:

Good condition, 4 in. faint blue mark in sky, possibly inherent to production, some toning, small crease to edge upper right corner, minor wear to edges of sheet, hinge mounted along top edge.

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