Grey Ribbon
1990
27 1/2 x 36 in. (69.9 x 91.4 cm)
Alex Katz
American
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color serigraph
Credit Line:
Gift of Lewis Norry and Jill Katz Norry
Accession Number:
1995.62.4
Location: Not currently on view
Printer:
Styria Studio, Inc. NYC
Portfolio:
Ada and Alex Portfolio
Based on a 1987 painting by Katz.
Alex Katz's ongoing effort to devalue the subject in his art is most visible in his portraits in which the subject is multiplied, with the result that the image contains more in design than it does in content. A sitter's individuality is diminished one further step, a person's unique character is subsumed to the pattern of the whole.
[Gallery label text, 2005]