Duplicate of plate (page 18) from Gloria
Alex Katz
American, born 1927
2005
A small etching from a suite for an illustrated book in which Alex Katz reduces a cropped female portrait to spare, graphic line and flat tone.
A centered gray square contains a cropped, serene face sketched in economical black strokes, the close crop and smooth tonal ground giving it a billboard‑like immediacy.
The work translates Katz’s signature flat, pop‑adjacent portraiture into print, bringing modernist simplicity into the format of illustrated books and bridging fine art with mass‑media imagery.
Medium
One from the supplementary suite of twenty-five etchings for an illustrated book with twenty-five etchings
Dimensions
plate: 4 x 4" (10.2 x 10.2 cm); sheet: 12 1/16 x 9" (30.7 x 22.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund and Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro Fund
Accession
266.2006.B8
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