ALEX KATZStudy for Maine Tree (9), 2024

Oil on board

12 × 9 in

About the artist

(b. 1927, Brooklyn, NY) is the preeminent painter of modern life. Acclaimed for his iconic portraits and striking landscape depictions, Katz has inspired generations of painters. Katz's work has been the subject of numerous retrospectives and solo presentations over the course of his expansive career. His work is in the permanent collections of over one hundred museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; the Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Albertina Museum, Vienna; el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan; and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Katz lives and works in New York. He was the 2019 Honoree at TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art and had a solo survey exhibition at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai in 2020. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; the Albertina Museum, Vienna; and the Museum Voorlinden, Wassenar; as well as a major retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York.

ALEX KATZStudy for Maine Tree (9), 2024

Oil on board

12 × 9 in

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