Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private European Collection
Auction Closed
October 29, 12:08 AM GMT
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private European Collection
ALEX KATZ
b. 1927
THE RED BAND
oil on linen
78 by 144 in. 198.1 by 365.8 cm.
Executed in 1978.
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Paul J. Schupf, New York (acquired from the above)
Charles Saatchi, London
Private Collection, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2005
Irving Sandler, Alex Katz, New York 1979, illustrated in color on the cover (dust jacket)
Exh. Cat., Hamilton, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Alex Katz: Process and Development, Small Paintings from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf '58, 1984, p. 25 (text)
Carter Ratcliff, Robert Storr, Iwona Blazwick and Barry Schwabsky, Eds., Alex Katz, New York 2005, p. 202 (text), and pp. 204-205, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, The Jewish Museum, Alex Katz Paints Ada, 2006, p. 102 (text)
Exh. Cat., Calabria, Italy, Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro, Alex Katz: Reflections, April - September 2009, p. 26, illustrated in color (detail)
H. Harvard Aranson, Elizabeth Mansfield, Eds., History of Modern Art, New Jersey 2010, pp. 645-46, and 820 (text)
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Alex Katz, March 1980, p. 17, no. 16, illustrated in color
Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art; and Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Alex Katz: An Exhibition Featuring Works from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf, July - October 1985, p. 21, no. 11 (text) (exhibited at Colby College, Waterville location only)
London, The Saatchi Gallery, Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting, January - April 1998, p. 14 (text), p. 43, illustrated, p. 44, illustrated (detail), and pp. 112-13, illustrated in color
Madrid, Galería Javier López, Alex Katz: Once In A Lifetime, November 2010 - March 2011, pp. 8, 164, illustrated in color (detail), pp. 11, 133, 157, illustrated, pp. 50-51, illustrated in color, and pp. 150-51, illustrated in color (installed in the exhibition Alex Katz: Once In A Lifetime, Galería Javier López, Madrid, 2011)