ALEX KATZ (b. 1927, USA)

'Yellow Tie (w/ Artist's Signature)', 1999/2000

Limited Edition Artist Necktie

This beautiful silk tie is embroidery SIGNED 'Alex Katz' on the front and back. Limited edition of 300. Manufactured by Ratti S.p.A., Italy. Published for the benefit of UNICEF by Cultural Ties. Numbered '001' on accompanying certificate. The tie measures 4" at its widest point. BRAND NEW in original presentation box (18" x 6" x 2"; some wear to box).

A GREAT & ORIGINAL GIFT ITEM!!!

Cultural Ties was an exciting and unique fusion of art and fashion. This imaginative global project was the brain child of London art dealer Kapil Jariwala: the brief was for seventy-seven leading artists from around the world to design neck tie mock-ups which were translated into textile format by Como, Italy's Ratti silk factory. A limited edition, only 300 of each tie, were produced and sold worldwide via selected retail outlets, gallery shops and the internet. The project, in association with UNICEF, was supported by Gavin Aldred, owner of the Westzonegalleryspace, where the artwork for the project was exhibited, and Westzone Publishing Ltd.

"Art and fashion have come together for Cultural Ties, a project that aims to raise $1m (about pounds 700,000) for Unicef's clean-water campaign. Artists such as the Chapman Brothers, Jeff Koons and Louise Bourgeois have each come up with a unique design for a necktie, and these have been produced in a limited-edition of 300 by Versace's tie-maker."

-- Independent, The (London), November 12, 2000

Alex Katz is one of America's leading painters. His work has been the subject of nearly 200 solo exhibitions since 1954. His portraits and landscapes capture American life in a flat, elegant and realistic style all his own. Now 83, Katz is receiving increased attention with recent solo exhibitions in Milan, Paris, Finland, Grenoble and New York.

Katz is best known for his images of individuals and groups, usually portrayed in social gatherings, that evoke a fashionable moneyed mileau and are rendered in a cool flattened style. His paintings are marked by a simplified line that emphasises forms and colours set against flat backgrounds. He began making figurative paintings in the late 1950's when their iconic quality and emotional distance was totally against the grain of the emotionally heightened and gestural works of the Abstract Expressionists. In the late 1950's he also made his first lino and woodcuts, beginning a life-long interest in printmaking.

In 1986 the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY mounted a major retrospective of his work and he was also shown at P.S.1, Museum, NY in 1998. His work is held in major American museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum, NY and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, and also the Tate Gallery, London, UK.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024
'Alex Katz: 60 Years of Printmaking', Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France (5/25 - 7/23)
'Alex Katz: Claire, Grass and Water', Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (4/17 - 9/29)

2023
'Alex Katz', Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
'Alex Katz: Autumn', GRAY, Chicago, IL
'Alex Katz', Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'Alex Katz: Dance and Theatre Collaborations', Colby College Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
'Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets', Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
'Alex Katz: Wedding Dress', Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (6/30/2023 - 6/2/2024)
'Alex Katz: Purple Splits', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
'Maine in America 2023: A Celebration of the Alex Katz Foundation', Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
'Alex Katz: Recent Prints', Albertina, Vienna, Austria
'Alex Katz', Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

2022
'Alex Katz: Gathering', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
'Alex Katz: 95th Birthday', Albertina, Vienna, Austria
'Alex Katz', Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, TN, Italy
'Alex Katz', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
'Alex Katz: Ada', Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2021
'Alex Katz', Galeria Monica de Cardenas Zuoz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
'Alex Katz: Flowers', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul, Korea
'Alex Katz: Mondes flottants / Floating Worlds', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France
'Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets', Albertina, Vienna, Austria
'Alex Katz: New Paintings', Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
'Alex Katz', Gladstone Gallery, Beijing, China

2020
'Alex Katz: Three Trees', Gladstone Gallery, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome
'Alex Katz', Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
'Alex Katz', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

2019
'Focus On: Alex Katz', Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Dallas TX
'Alex Katz/Moby Dick', Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
'Alex Katz: Water Lilies - Homage to Monet series, 2009-2010', Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
'Alex Katz', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
'Alex Katz: Bigger is Better (Prints)', Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany

2018
'Alex Katz', Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

2017
'Alex Katz: Endless Summer', Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
'Alex Katz', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

2016
'Alex Katz: Black and White', American University Museum, Washington D.C.
'Alex Katz: Ladies and Landscapes', Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: Quick Light', Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
'Alex Katz: Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings', Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings', Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

2015
'Alex Katz: This is Now', Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
'Alex Katz at the Met', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: This is Now', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

2012
'Alex Katz', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow', Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK 
'Alex Katz', Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria 
'Alex Katz', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
'Alex Katz: Maine/New York', Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
'Alex Katz: Paintings and Works on Paper', Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
'Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow', Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK
'Alex Katz: 85 Years Pure Beauty', Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg, Germany
'Alex Katz: Prints', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
'Alex Katz: 35 Years of Portraits', Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

2011
'Alex Katz: Naked Beauty', Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Germany 
'Alex Katz: Figure / Ground', Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY 
'Alex Katz', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: Face the Music', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria 
'Alex Katz: Recent Paintings and Selected Prints', James Cohen Gallery, Shanghai, China

2010
'Alex Katz: Once in a Lifetime' Galería Javier López - Mário Sequeira, Madrid, Spain
'Alex Katz: Prints, Paintings, Cutouts', Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
'Alex Katz: New Work', Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
'Alex Katz', Mário Sequeira Gallery, Brago, Portugal
'Alex Katz: Prints', Albertina, Vienna, Austria
'Alex Katz: Portraits', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
'Alex Katz', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
'Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making', Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

2009
'Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing', Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
'Alex Katz: Drawings', Peter Blum Soho, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: Selected Works', Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany 
'Alex Katz: Fifteen Minutes', PaceWildenstein, New York, NY 
'Alex Katz: Fashion and Studies', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2008
'Alex Katz', Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
'Alex Katz: Marine', Galerie Jablonka, Berlin, Germany
'Alex Katz: Drawing on Paper II', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2007
'Alex Katz: One Flight Up', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
'Alex Katz: Drawings on Paper I', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
'Alex Katz: Paintings, Studies, Cartoons', Galeri Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
'Alex Katz', Pace Prints, New York, NY
'Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', New York State Museum, Albany, NY
'Alex Katz: Cut-outs', Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
'Alex Katz: New York', Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
'Alex Katz: Smile', Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY

2006
'Alex Katz', Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
'Alex Katz: Paints Ada', Jewish Museum, New York, NY
'Essential Painting' (group exhibition), National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
'Alex Katz in Maine', Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
'Alex Katz: Works from the Permanent Collection', Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
'Alex Katz: The Sixties', PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
'Alex Katz: New Paintings', Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005
'Alex Katz', Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
'Alex Katz: Man in White Shirt', Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
'Alex Katz: First Sight', Peter Blum, New York, NY
'Alex Katz', Farsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
'Alex Katz: Collages', Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME
'Alex Katz', CAC Málaga, Spain
'Alex Katz', University of South of Florida, Tampa, FL

2004
'Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings', Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

 

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