Alex Katz’s White Lilies 6 (2025), is a striking example of the artist’s continued mastery of scale, elegance, and reduction. Executed as a silkscreen in colors on Saunders Waterford High White HP paper, the work embodies Katz’s signature visual language: simplified forms, expansive composition, and an extraordinary sensitivity to light and atmosphere.

Spanning an impressive 96 inches in width, White Lilies 6 possesses a cinematic presence that transforms the traditional still life into something immersive and contemporary. Katz isolates the lilies against a luminous pale aqua background, allowing the flowers to float almost weightlessly across the composition. Their delicate white petals, accented with subtle gestural contours and elegant linear details, create a refined interplay between abstraction and representation.

What makes this work particularly compelling is Katz’s ability to distill nature into pure visual rhythm. Rather than focusing on botanical precision, he captures the fleeting sensation of looking — the calm, clarity, and immediacy of a moment. The monumental scale further elevates the subject, giving the lilies a commanding yet serene presence that recalls both Japanese screen painting and modern color field abstraction.

Created in 2025, Alex Katz’s White Lilies 6, is a Silkscreen hand-signed by Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927 - ) and hand numbered from the edition of 50. This work belongs to a highly sought-after recent body of floral imagery that demonstrates Katz’s remarkable consistency and relevance well into his late career. His flower compositions have become increasingly celebrated among collectors for their balance of sophistication, tranquility, and timeless modernity.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Alex Katz, White Lilies 6, 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 6, 2025 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.

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