Alex Katz’s Grey Dress (1992) exemplifies the artist’s signature ability to distill form, figure, and fashion into a composition of striking clarity and poise. Executed with his hallmark flat planes of color and precise contours, the screen print captures the serene elegance of a female figure in a simple yet commanding grey dress.

Katz’s reductive approach to detail emphasizes silhouette and gesture, allowing the quiet sophistication of the subject to radiate with timeless allure.

The composition reflects Katz’s enduring interest in portraiture and the dialogue between figure and ground, where the absence of extraneous detail creates a heightened sense of presence. The muted tonal palette of the grey dress contrasts with the crisp handling of line, drawing the viewer’s attention to the subject’s effortless grace. This pared-down aesthetic, at once modern and classical, embodies Katz’s unique vision: a celebration of contemporary life elevated to the realm of iconic imagery.

Created in 1992, Grey Dress belongs to an important period in Katz’s career, when his focus on large, bold images of figures and fashion achieved a refined maturity. The work is both intimate and monumental, balancing simplicity with sophistication, and demonstrating why Katz is regarded as one of the great masters of postwar American art. Rare, elegant, and undeniably captivating, Grey Dress is a quintessential example of Katz’s ability to transform the everyday into the extraordinary.

Alex Katz Grey Dress, 1992 is a screenprint in twenty-three colors on Arches 100% Rag paper, hand-signed in pencil by Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927 - ) and numbered from the edition of 150 in lower left. Copyright mark by Alex Katz and printer's stamp on verso.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Alex Katz Grey Dress, 1992 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. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:

Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Alex Katz Grey Dress, 1992 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.