Very Rare Landscape Portfolio by Alex Katz avlailable. Small edition of only 35 copies. Large-format oil paintings were used as a model, which formed an exhibition in New York in 2019. For more than half a century Alex Katz painted these landscapes with virtuosity and paired with consistent elegance.

 
Landscapes observed from the edge of his house in Maine. Katz is in the middle of a storm.

The sun breaks orange against dark spruces; the day falls from a thicket of trees; and a night sky emerges from nothing but irrepressible movements of black and gray.

In these new works Katz manifests his vision to those in the darkness, dealing with secrets that he can almost conjure up in color. The life of a painting can be truly mysterious, especially for the painter. These paintings exist metaphorically where life borders on death, and may have something uncanny to tell us.

There are two kinds of life in these paintings: The one that the paintings embody, the one that we think we are observing, and then there is another. It is this other that causes the trouble, this other that we long for.

At the Sotheby's auction house in New York on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, the second-highest auction result was achieved for a painting by the artist Alex Katz: 3.1 million USD for the work "The Red Band" in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction.

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, the world record for a painting by the American artist Alex Katz was set at the Phillips Auction House in London. The painting Blue Umbrella I from 1972 sold for £3,375,000 or the equivalent of 4.1 million US dollars.

Alex Katz is an American painter, sculptor and graphic artist who became famous for his figurative paintings. His works are immediately recognizable by their colorful, two-dimensional style, which was created in response to the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. Although Alex Katz is widely recognized for his role as a precursor of the Pop Art movement, he has avoided being associated with any style or movement throughout his career.
Galerie Frank Fluegel has always included the artist Alex Katz in its program, and has also pointed out for years that he has long been completely underrated in Europe. Now that he is over 90 years old, his work is increasingly coming into focus.

Like Picasso, Katz develops more and more creativity as he grows older and seems unstoppable in the creation of new works.
The previous auction record for one of his paintings is more than 1 million US$, which is still far from the prices of his American colleagues like Tom Wesselmann or Andy Warhol.

Many Alex Katz exhibitions have been dedicated to his talent in recent years. Amongst others at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or the Metropolitan Museum in New York. 2019 in Munich/Germany at Museum Brandhorst; Daegu/Korea Daegu Kunstmuseum, Paris/France Musée de L'Orangerie. His works of art hang together with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Basquiat or KAWS in museums worldwide. In 2021 there will be a new Alex Katz exhibition in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid/Spain. The Guggenheim Museum in New York will show a retrospective of Alex Katz in 2022.

Galerie Frank Fluegel with locations in Nuremberg and Kitzbuehel focuses on high-quality originals of Pop Art, Street Art and Contemporary Art.

You will find works of art by Alex Katz, Mel Ramos, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol or Julian Opie in the inventory. But also editions and prints by Harland Miller, David Shrigley, Sean Scully, Gerhard Richter, Robert Indiana, Allen Jones, Thomas Ruff, David Gerstein, Peter Doig, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin, Raqib Shaw and Robert Longo. Also other street art artists like Mr. Brainwash, XOOOOX, BAMBI, Fringe and John Crash Matos. Of course also design objects by Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Smith or Philippe Starck.

Exhibitions take place in regular rotation in the centrally located stores in Nuremberg and Kitzbuehel. International trade fair participations round off the program.

GALERIE FRANK FLUEGEL
Obere Woerthstrasse 12
90403 Nuremberg

Germany

FRANK FLUEGEL GALLERIES invites you to view this exhibition, virtually on our website www.frankfluegel.com or in person