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Green Jacket
199035 15/16 x 24 in. (91.3 x 61 cm)
Alex Katz
American
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color serigraph
Credit Line:
Gift of Lewis Norry and Jill Katz Norry
Accession Number:
1995.62.3
Location: Not currently on view
Edition: 73/150
Portfolio: Ada and Alex Portfolio
Based on a 1989 painting by Katz.
Alex Katz says of his artistic influences, "I've got as much Old Masters as I do movies." In Green Jacket, Katz paints himself in the tradition of Baroque court portraiture. As the court painter for the Spanish throne in the 17th century, Velazquez cultivated a style of portraiture that displayed the power, pretension and grace valued at that time. Katz contemporizes his self-portrait by depicting himself in his green athletic jacket; clearly an American man of the late twentieth century.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
Alex Katz says of his artistic influences, "I've got as much Old Masters as I do movies." In Green Jacket, Katz paints himself in the tradition of Baroque court portraiture. As the court painter for the Spanish throne in the 17th century, Velazquez cultivated a style of portraiture that displayed the power, pretension and grace valued at that time. Katz contemporizes his self-portrait by depicting himself in his green athletic jacket; clearly an American man of the late twentieth century.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
Bibliography
See general reference in Alex Katz catalogue raisonne, ed. Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2011: cat. no. 246, p. 179
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- A High Style: Alex Katz's Ada and Alex Portfolio Memorial Art Gallery 5/20/2005 - 7/31/2005
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