Alex Katz
3 P.M. November, 1996
Information about the artwork
- MaterialOil on canvas
- Dimensions167.5 x 228.7 cm
- Year of acquisition1998
- Inventory numberUAB 215
- On viewCurrently not exhibited
- Copyright© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn [2024], Photo: Haydar Koyupinar, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
More about the artwork
Katz celebrated his first successes in the New York art scene at the height of Abstract Expressionism. Yet he always remained committed to figurative painting. Only late, in the mid-1980s, he moved toward gestural abstraction in his landscapes and cityscapes. The branches, twigs and leaves in “3 P.M. November” and “Moonlight” (1997) recall the spontaneous gestures and ‘drip paintings’ of Jackson Pollock. Each brushstroke can be read figuratively and at the same time appears as an autonomous visual sign.
