Alex Katz

Alex Katz’s distinctive figuration, portraiture, and expressive landscapes are adored by collectors and art lovers globally. A true successor to the New York Pop artists (notably Lichtenstein), he upholds a fundamentally Pop Art aesthetic, framing his subjects iconically and in bold colour.

Born in 1927, Katz began his artistic career in the 1950s. Developing his signature ‘flat style’ in the following decade, he arguably revived figurative painting at a time when it had fallen out of style, blending characteristics of Pop Art and Minimalism into an idiosyncratic visual language. Approaching 100 years old, the artist is still active and continues to influence contemporary artists through years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper, and sculpture.