Alex Katz’s White Lilies 2 (2025) is a refined and monumental composition that exemplifies the artist’s lifelong mastery of simplification, scale, and visual elegance. Executed as a silkscreen in colors on Saunders Waterford High White HP paper, the work demonstrates Katz’s remarkable ability to distill nature into a bold contemporary image while preserving an extraordinary sense of lightness and atmosphere.

In this composition, Katz presents a dramatically enlarged white lily emerging across a luminous pale aqua background. The flower appears almost suspended in space, its flowing petals and sweeping dark green leaves rendered with graceful economy and fluidity. Through subtle gestural lines and flattened planes of color, Katz captures not merely the physical structure of the flower, but the fleeting sensation of movement, light, and observation itself.

What makes White Lilies 2 particularly compelling is the balance between intimacy and monumentality. The close cropping of the composition creates an immersive visual experience, transforming a traditional floral subject into a sophisticated contemporary statement. Katz’s restrained palette and confident reduction of form reveal the influence of both modern abstraction and Japanese aesthetics, while maintaining the calm immediacy that has become synonymous with his work.

Created in 2025, Alex Katz’s White Lilies 2, this silkscreen 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 50. This work belongs to an important recent series of floral compositions that continue to reinforce Katz’s position as one of the most influential living American artists. His recent flower prints have become increasingly desirable among collectors for their timeless modernity, serene beauty, and strong architectural presence within contemporary interiors.

The edition is limited to only 50 impressions, each hand-signed by Alex Katz. Combining rarity, scale, and exceptional visual clarity, White Lilies 2 represents an important opportunity to acquire a major recent work by a master of postwar and contemporary American art.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Alex Katz, White Lilies 2, 2025 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, White Lilies 2, 2025 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.