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Alex Katz

Ada Smiling

Live auction begins on:

February 25, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alex Katz

b. 1927


Ada Smiling

oil on canvas

60 by 48 in.

152.4 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in 1993.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Alex Katz: Smile, October - November 1994, no. 5, p. 17, illustrated in color

New York, Peter Blum Gallery, Alex Katz: Dawn, February 1996

Braga, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Alex Katz: Pintura, May - June 1997, p. 17, illustrated in color

New York, Peter Blum Gallery, Alex Katz: Smile, January - March 2007

New York, Marlborough Gallery, A Tribute to Alex Katz, November 2022

Nina Siegal, “Masters of Paint, Time and Intimacy,” The New York Times, 2 October 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Chloë Ashby, “Captured on canvas: portraits at Frieze Masters,” Financial Times, 4 October 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Michael Klein, “Alex Katz: The Simplicity of Complexity,” Impact Wealth, April 2024, illustrated in color (online)