© Alex Katz, Blue Umbrella 2, 1972, © Pictoright Amsterdam 2023. olieverf op linnen/oil on linen 243,8 x 365 cm, Private Collection, New York
Alex Katz: ‘The only person you don’t want to bore is yourself’
Gerda J. van Ham
The American artist Alex Katz (1927) is a living legend. He still paints every day in his fifth-floor loft in Soho, New York, or from his Maine country house. He needs stairs, construction lamps and large brushes for his enormous canvases. At an advanced age, Katz also works with cardboards (preliminary studies). Along the enlarged contours he […]