Alex Katz Three Trees, 2018 is a 20-color silkscreen print on Saunders Waterford HP White 425g paper is hand-signed by Alex Katz in pencil in the lower left and is numbered from the edition of 60 in pencil in the lower left.

In Three Trees, Alex Katz distills nature to its most elegant essentials. Three pale trunks rise vertically against a luminous field of electric green, their silvery bark punctuated by rhythmic markings and animated by windswept leaves that seem to glide across the composition. The scene is both tranquil and charged—an immersive moment suspended between stillness and motion.

Rendered in twenty richly layered silkscreen colors, the surface achieves Katz’s signature clarity and precision. The Saunders Waterford HP White paper lends a refined, velvety presence, enhancing the crisp edges and expansive color fields that define his mature style. At an impressive 59 inches wide, the work commands space, transforming a wall into a contemporary landscape of light and atmosphere.

Katz’s exploration of trees and the Maine landscape has long been central to his practice. Here, he eliminates unnecessary detail, allowing bold color contrasts and simplified forms to evoke the experience of being outdoors at dusk—when shadows deepen and light hums across the horizon. The result is both modern and timeless: a distilled vision of nature seen through the lens of postwar American abstraction.

Hand-signed and numbered from a highly limited edition of just 60 impressions, Three Trees represents a museum-caliber example of Katz’s late-career printmaking—monumental in scale, sophisticated in execution, and unmistakably iconic.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Alex Katz Three Trees, 2018 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. Bauer, Gunhild. Alex Katz Prints: Catalogue RAISONNÉ, 1947-2023. Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, 2023. Listed and illustrated as catalogue no. 661 on pg 368.
2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Alex Katz Three Trees, 2018 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.