Oil paint on hardboard
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alex-katz-1386" aria-label="More by Alex Katz" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Alex Katz</a>
West Window
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
body
domestic
features
head / face
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
landscape
landscape - non-specific
people
portraits
smiling
tree
window
woman
painting oil paint hardboard
14 March 2009 – 8 November 2009
2009-11-08
12 March 2009 – 8 November 2009
2009-11-08
2009-03-12
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2009-03-14
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz
Collection based display
20 November 2010 – 12 March 2011
2011-03-12
20 November 2010 – 12 March 2011
2011-03-12
2010-11-20
Oriel Mostyn (Llandudno, UK)
http://www.mostyn.org/home.php?/Home
2010-11-20
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Alex Katz
Loan-out
26 March 2011 – 4 June 2011
2011-06-04
26 March 2011 – 4 June 2011
2011-06-04
2011-03-26
Pier Arts Centre (Stromness, UK)
http://www.pierartscentre.com/
2011-03-26
ARTIST ROOMS 2011: Alex Katz & Cy Twombly
Loan-out
1 October 2012 – 31 January 2013
2013-01-31
1 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-10-01
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-10-01
Alex Katz: Give me tomorrow
Loan-out
18 July 2013 – 31 October 2013
2013-10-31
18 July 2013 – 31 October 2013
2013-10-31
2013-07-18
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2013-07-18
Beneath the Surface
Loan-out
28 April 2014 – 30 November 2014
2014-11-30
28 April 2014 – 30 November 2014
2014-11-30
2014-04-28
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2014-04-28
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz
Collection based display
23 November 2018 – 10 March 2019
2019-03-10
23 November 2018 – 10 March 2019
2019-03-10
2018-11-23
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-11-23
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz
Collection based display
30 March 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
30 March 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
2019-03-30
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust (Carlisle, UK)
2019-03-30
ARTIST ROOMS 2019: Alex Katz
Tate partnerships & programmes
West Window
support: 196 × 238 × 3 mm
frame: 216 × 256 × 34 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>Two classic painterly genres are united in this small study: portraiture and landscape. Katz captures the contrast between interior and exterior light, whilst the informal, cropped composition recalls Edouard Vuillard’s intimiste paintings. Katz has been painting portraits of his family and friends in New York since the 1950s; these are now seen as precursors of Pop Art. Often grand in scale, they have a slick finish and detached manner with undercurrents of melancholia. Small oil paintings such as this one are sketched from life and often intended to be scaled up into larger works, but their economic execution and visible brushstrokes reveal an intimate side to his practice. He says, "A sketch is very direct. It is working empirically, inside of an idea."</p>

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2009-04-16T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults architecture body domestic features head / face individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors landscape landscape - non-specific people portraits smiling tree window woman