Alex katz was born july 24 1927 to a jewish family in brooklyn new york as the son of an émigré who had lost a factory he owned in russia to the soviet revolution.
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Blue umbrella 2 is the most expensive one and it was sold for 666 000 at christie s new york in 2011.
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Alex katz was born in the sheepshead bay area of brooklyn in 1927 and grew up in st.
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He began drawing at an early age with his father a businessman and knew that he wanted to study art exclusively by the time he attended woodrow wilson high school which provided a program that allowed him to split the day between academics and the arts.
He has a varied oeuvre ranging from large landscape paintings to figure studies marine scenes and flowers.
Those pleasures are far from simple the breezy elegant sophistication of his smooth surfaces simmering.
New york school painter alex katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s abstract expressionism finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation his brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema in many ways anticipating both the formal.
Pop artist alex katz most known for his portraits of his wife ada has long been inspired by landscapes especially those near his summer home in maine katz first experimented with painting outdoors as a student at the prestigious skowhegan school in maine in the 1940s reaching his most productive period of landscape painting in the 80s and 90s.
Born in new york in 1927 alex katz served in the navy before attending art school where he developed his trademark style by experimenting with collaging paper.
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Website prints landscape portfolio 2001 website prints group 9 2002 2011 website prints six female portraits 2004.
Early life and career.
From 1946 to 1949 katz studied at the cooper union in new york and from 1949 to 1950 he studied at the skowhegan school of painting.
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Albans queens where katz grew up.
