Oil paint on hardboard
Portraits
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ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
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Vincent
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
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Vincent
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
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
Vincent
frame: 318 × 165 × 34 mm
support: 300 × 147 × 4 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>Vincent is the artist’s son; since his birth in 1960 he has been an habitual model in Katz’s paintings. He appears here as an adult, now a recognised poet and art critic. In recent years the two have collaborated on a range of literary and artistic projects. 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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