Alex Katz

Colour: The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The illustration fails to accurately convey the three dimensionality of the sculpture. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a minor indentation to the rear of the base approximately 15cm. from the left hand corner. A section of the drill hole is exposed to the left hand side of the front of the work where the base and the work itself adjoin.
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The ICA presented the exhibition Alex Katz: Recent Paintings by the
American painter in 1990, featuring a group of the artist's panoramic
canvases. Katz also donated a work to the ICA's auction in 1997.

For the ICA's 60th anniversary auction Katz has selected an artist's
proof of the work Cow, 2007, a silkscreen on a freestanding
aluminium panel. Katz has painted cows since the 1950s, when he
began spending summers in Maine. In the early 1980s the artist
produced a large oil painting of cows against a bright green field,
and the latter image – and the cut-outs he made at this time – are the source for the current piece.

"When I exhibited my night paintings at the ICA, I received a large bad review. I assumed that the critic was out of touch. I asked Irving Sandler about him, he said: "Rothko's bad review was
longer than yours!" (Alex Katz, 2008)