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Monica De Cardenas is delighted to announce a very special exhibition of works on paper by renowned American artist Alex Katz, focusing on his drawings and cartoons. The show offers a close glimpse into his practice and mastery of portraiture through his bold, simplified traits that distill human figures to their essence.

Katz is one of the few contemporary painters still employing an essentially Renaissance procedure. He first creates pencil drawings of the whole composition or its individual elements, then makes oil sketches to fix color and tone values. Next, he enlarges and finalizes the …