Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Alex Katz began painting more than 75 years ago, he ignored what was popular then, to pursue his passion: figurative art.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alex Katz, who turned 98 last month, paints paeans to summer. There's much more to his repertoire, of course. But anyone who has ...

Artist Alex Katz is an American great who just celebrated his 99th birthday. What better way to celebrate than to have an exhibition in Nice, France, this fall titled "Henri Matisse - Alex Katz." ...

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Katz (today, in SoHo) pursued figurative painting even in the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism was at its height. Stephanie Sinclair The cavernous lobby of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Cool, flat faces. Killer colors. Serious price tags. Here’s why Alex Katz is the quiet superstar every museum, gallery and collector still fights over. You keep seeing those super-flat faces and bold ...

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In deceptively simple paintings, Katz squeezes more flavor and subtlety out of color than all but a handful of modern masters. Alex Katz, who turned 98 last month, paints paeans to summer. There’s ...

When Alex Katz began painting more than 75 years ago, he ignored what was popular then, to pursue his passion: figurative art. "Most people didn't like my work," he said. "It was figurative, and ...

Alex Katz, who turned 98 last month, paints paeans to summer. There’s much more to his repertoire, of course. But anyone who has kept track of Katz’s production over the past seven decades will ...