One of Katz’s signature works, Flags, presents a close encounter with stalwart iris blossoms in the artist’s characteristic flat rendering. The blossoms, painted in black, are set against a white background, creating a tension that unravels an unexpected irreal garden.

"I generally start with oil sketches, because I can paint more quickly than I can draw. In this way I try to capture the sensation of what I’m doing, getting into the unconscious and creating the images, and then figuring out what I did."

ALEX KATZ

The aesthetics of flowers such as flags, tulips and roses has been continuously explored by the artist throughout his career.This Japanese woodcut is another Katz's exploration of the nature, in which the artists offers his study of shapes cretaed by the natural light. Katz's flower shapes are about to merge into abstraction.

“White Roses” are part of the famous flower painting series by Alex Katz. The aesthetics of flowers such as flags, tulips and roses has been continuously explored by the artist throughout his career.

"I’m trying to get the white to the background, but when you have the strong leaves the roses become recessive, and if you lighten the leaves, the whole thing is going to look like a weak Impressionist painting. You have to figure out the balance as you go along."

ALEX KATZ

This compositon is an exploration of the volumes and colors created by natural light, "White Roses" breathe nature, the radiant white delights the vision against the limitless blue background. Katz’s flower themes are inspired by everyday motifs and are among most favorite subjects of the artist within the theme of nature.

“Yellow Tulips” is part of the famous flower painting series by Alex Katz. The aesthetics of flowers such as flags, tulips, and roses has been continuously explored by the artist throughout his career. Katz has been painting flowers since the 1960s, often during his summer residencies in Maine. The cropped, flattened composition displays a debt to Japanese woodblock art printing. The American artist is well-known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and unmodulated colours are now seen as precursors of Pop Art. "Yellow Tulips" is another of Katz's wonderfully bright exploration of the nature and the landscape. He represents the volumes and colors created by the natural light, this artwork breathes nature, the radiant yellow delights the vision against the limitless black background. The painting “Tulips 4” which this edition is based on belongs to the Collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

“ I generally start with oil sketches, because I can paint more quickly than I can draw. In this way I try to capture the sensation of what I’m doing, getting into the unconscious and creating the images, and then figuring out what I did. „

—Alex Katz