Alex Katz Dancer 4, 1983 is an artistically bold work that highlights the fluid movement of dance in a set of 4 lithographs. By using flat areas of color, which are carefully painted to ensure an even and almost mechanical application, Katz places the viewer’s attention away from the work itself and instead focuses on the expressive moment of joy the character is displaying and the fluidity of her movements. Arms stretched out above and beside her, the woman in the work finally faces towards the viewer, her gaze cast to the side as if she were glancing at something out of the boundaries. Her hair, though lacking in traditional movement, cascades down her shoulder and embodies the fluidity that Katz is trying to portray.

Alex Katz’s Dancer 4, 1983, is a work that commemorates the musical collaboration between Alex Katz and the choreographer and dancer William Dunas. The Dancer is performing Dunas’ famously stripped-down dance style, a style that mirrors that artist’s own clean and beautiful, sparse image-making.

Created in 1983, Alex Katz Dancer 4, 1983, is a color lithograph on Arches wove paper hand-signed and numbered from the edition of 100 by Alex Katz (1927 – ) in pencil on the bottom left.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Alex Katz Dancer 4 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. Maravell, Nicholas P. ALEX KATZ: The Complete Prints. Alpine Fine Arts Collection, New York, 1983. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné np. PP: 149
2. A Certificate of authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:

Framed to museum-grade conservation standards, Alex Katz Dancer 4, 1983, is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical-grade Plexiglas.