Alex Katz’s Flowers in the Wind (2024), is a captivating example of the artist’s enduring ability to transform simple natural forms into sophisticated modern compositions. Executed as a 4-color woodcut on Somerset White 500 gsm paper, the work reflects Katz’s celebrated minimalist aesthetic while showcasing the bold clarity and monumentality that have defined his career for decades.

Stretching an extraordinary 120 inches across, Flowers in the Wind possesses a sweeping panoramic quality that recalls both cinematic framing and Japanese screen painting. Katz disperses vivid yellow blossoms across an expansive white field, allowing the flowers and fragmented stems to appear suspended in motion, as if carried effortlessly by a passing breeze. The composition feels both spontaneous and carefully orchestrated, balancing movement, rhythm, and negative space with remarkable precision.

What makes this work particularly compelling is Katz’s masterful reduction of form. Through simplified silhouettes, flat planes of color, and elegant restraint, he captures not the literal appearance of flowers, but the fleeting sensation of atmosphere, light, and movement. The work embodies a sense of calm vitality that has become central to Katz’s most celebrated floral imagery.

Created in 2024,Alex Katz’s Flowers in the Wind, is a woodcut hand-signed by Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927 - ) numbered from the edition of 35. This work belongs to an important recent body of large-scale floral compositions that continue to solidify Alex Katz’s position as one of the most influential and relevant living American artists. His recent prints have become increasingly sought after for their timeless modernism, museum-scale presence, and exceptional visual refinement.

The edition is extremely limited to only 35 impressions, making this work particularly rare within Katz’s graphic oeuvre. Given its scale, scarcity, and iconic visual language, Flowers in the Wind represents an exceptional opportunity for collectors seeking a major contemporary print by a master of postwar American art.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Alex Katz, Flowers in the Wind, 2024 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, Flowers in the Wind, 2024 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.