Sold
$2,208,000
Est
$1,200,000
-
$1,800,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Alex Katz
Size
each 78 x 60 1/8 in. (198.1 x 152.4 cm)
overall 78 x 180 3/8 in. (198.1 x 458.2 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
Medium
oil on canvas, triptych
Signature
Painted in 1982.
Provenance
Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in January 1984)
Private Collection, Philadelphia
Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006
Literature
Milton Esterow, ed., ARTnews, March 1983, vol. 82, no. 3, p. 16 (illustrated)
Alexandra Anderson, "Editor's Choice: Selected Gallery Previews," Portfolio, March/April 1983, vol. V, no. 2, p. 24 (illustrated)
Victoria Donohoe, "Art: A Look at the Highly Styled Realism of Alex Katz," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 7, 1984, p. 4-D
Ann Beattie, Alex Katz, New York, 1987, pl. 15, pp. 7, 51 (illustrated, pp. 60-62; collection credit erroneously listed)
Patricia Pate Havlice, World Painting Index: Second Supplement, 1980-1989, vol. I, Metuchen, 1995, p. 538
Daniel Morris, Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art, Amherst, 2002, pp. 99, 111
Shinichi Fukui, Modern Japanese Painting Techniques, trans. Wendy Uchimura, Tokyo, 2022, p. 93
Exhibited
New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, March 5–April 2, 1983, no. 10, p. 3 (illustrated, pp. 24-25; detail illustrated on the front cover)
Philadelphia, Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Alex Katz, April 6–April 30, 1984