Details
Alex Katz (B. 1927)
Vivien
signed and dated 'Alex Katz 06' (lower right)
charcoal on paper
15 x 22 ½in. (38 x 57cm.)
Executed in 2006
Provenance
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Lot Essay

‘With certain people, you just seem to get better paintings out of them. I know there are some women that I’ve painted where I get winners every time. Others not so much. So the model clearly has something to do with it; it’s not exactly a collaboration, but something like that.’ (A. Katz, quoted in Alex Katz: Give me tomorrow,exh. cat., Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, 2012, p. 65).

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