Alex Katz painted hundreds of portraits of his wife—here are 3 things you should know about his most famous, 'Blue Umbrella II':
. Private collection, New York. © 2022 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society , New York. Photo: Courtesy private collection.
Over the next several years, Katz worked to develop what has come to be known as his signature style—and he has said he destroyed upwards of 1,000 paintings in the 1950s during this pursuit. Over the course of the following decades, Katz expanded his practice to include a wide variety of printmaking techniques, and the genres of portraiture and landscape gained prominence in his work. is one of—if not the—most famous of Katz’s paintings.
Alex Katz met Ada Del Moro at a gallery opening in the East Village in 1957. Del Moro was a research biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and one of their first dates was to a Billie Holiday concert. The very first portrait Katz made ofwas the same year they met, an oil on Masonite work of her seated with hands demurely crossed. This work marked the beginning of Katz’s serious interest in portraiture, as well as the start of a lifetime’s worth of portraits of Ada.
Despite working at such a rapid pace, you won’t find paint splatters or spills in Katz’s studio or workshop. Though the idea of an artist’s studio conjures images of built up, dried paint on floors, walls, and brushes, the clean Minimalism of his work extends into workspace, and visitors have noted its pervasive tidiness and cleanliness., from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Licensed Quarter” , . Collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
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