Alex Katz’s Spring Triptych 2024 is a luminous meditation on renewal, light, and the quiet elegance of the natural world, expressed through the artist’s unmistakable visual language of clarity and restraint. Known for his ability to distill reality into its most essential and evocative forms, Katz here presents a three-panel composition that captures the fleeting vitality of spring with a poetic simplicity that belies its technical mastery.

Each panel of the triptych radiates with a sense of immediacy, yet the stillness is palpable, a hallmark of Katz’s approach. The delicate greens, soft blooms, and crisp atmosphere evoke the awakening of nature after winter, emphasizing freshness, rebirth, and the ephemeral beauty of seasonal change. Katz reduces detail to broad, flattened planes of color, creating an effect at once abstract and representational, allowing viewers to experience the essence of springtime rather than its literal depiction.

The triptych format enhances the rhythmic quality of the work, offering viewers a panoramic experience that unfolds across three perspectives. The subtle shifts in composition from panel to panel mirror the variability of nature itself—ever-changing, yet bound together by harmony. Through this arrangement, Katz underscores the continuity of time, the cyclical progression of the seasons, and the meditative experience of observing the world with heightened awareness.

Spring Triptych is both serene and monumental, reaffirming Katz’s place as a master of contemporary figurative painting who transforms the ordinary into the iconic. It embodies his lifelong fascination with perception, light, and temporality, while offering viewers a moment of still reflection—an invitation to pause and witness the understated beauty of the world around them.

Alex Katz, Spring Tryptich, 2024, this suite of Silkscreens in colors on Saunders Waterford High White HP 425 gsm fine art paper is hand-signed by Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927 - ) numbered from the edition of 40.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Alex Katz Spring Tryptich, 2024 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonné 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 Spring Tryptich, 2024 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.