Alex Katz - First Sight - Working Drawings (SIGNED COPY)

KATZ, Alex ] Jean-Christophe Ammann

ISBN 10: 0935875204 / ISBN 13: 9780935875201

Published by Peter Blum Edition / Blumarts, New York, 2004

About this Item

Signed and dated (8.4.05) by Alex Katz in black ink on the front blank fly-leaf (no other marks or inscriptions). Very thick large landscape 4to. in tan linen covered boards with printed paper labels to spine and front cover, 420pp on stiff art paper, brief text (in German and English), mainly sketches. Only 800 copies of this book were made . [CONDITION: A well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy (page-block edges very slightly tanned). An excellent copy and uncommon signed ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alex Katz - First Sight - Working Drawings (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Peter Blum Edition / Blumarts, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935875204
• ISBN 13: 9780935875201
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In the more than 500 working drawings by Alex Katz reproduced here, we are able to look over the artist's shoulder at works in their nascent state--a rare experience essential to any understanding of the artist's oeuvre. Like a sculptor's preparatory drawings, these are the sketches of a painter who is not a draftsman but a painter; they are the raw material, revealing Katz's methods of looking and recording. Contours, overlappings, movements and attitudes are put to paper ever so quickly, with observation given top priority. Subject development, composition and memory are all elements that come about afterwards, when the artist takes up the paintbrush and moves to the canvas. First Sight contains a vast array of previously unpublished sketches and drawings, printed here in facsimile, at a scale of 1:1, and spanning the entire career of the artist, from 1950 to the present. The book is a limited edition of 1000 copies.