January 7

American, born 1927

1993

A large aquatint print in which Alex Katz isolates a poised woman—her purple beret and flat, luminous features—against a misty stand of bare trees to capture the still, cinematic instant of a modern portrait.

What strikes you first is the sharp contrast between the poster‑flat face and vivid lavender beret pushed forward from a monochrome, calligraphic tangle of tree trunks that recede like fog, giving the scene a cool, cinematic clarity.

By translating his signature flattened, camera‑like portraits into aquatint, Katz bridged painting and printmaking and helped define a late‑20th‑century language of pared‑down, large‑scale portraiture that emphasizes surface, scale, and immediacy.

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January 7

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