ALEX KATZ | Tweed Sweater

Marlborough Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1988

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along edges, including minor hairline craquelure at the pull margins. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. Under raking light, hairline craquelure is visible in both figures’ pink and white painted hair in the upper center and upper right corner. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, scattered pinpoint spots in both figures’ faces and hair fluoresce darkly and appear to have benefitted from light retouching and the aforementioned craquelure appears to have been consolidated.
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"If you keep looking, you find out everything about the person. It’s all there. But it’s not the first thing you see in the painting. There is a lot of human content in the pictures, and I do think that all my paintings are done from a certain social standpoint. Some people are poor, some are rich, some are old, some are young – but that’s
 not the prime issue. That’s what I don’t like about Rembrandts: they tell you too much about the person, rather than showing you the person."
Alex Katz