Alex Katz is one of the most popular and richest Pop Artist who was born on July 24, 1927 in New York, New York, United States. Influential pop artist whose work was exhibited in New York, Dublin, Venice, and London, among other cities. His paintings were large and simple, but bold and colorful. He was inspired by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro.
He collaborated with poet John Ashbery on works such as “Fragment” in 1966 and “Coma Berenices” in 2005.
His family was Jewish who had come to Brooklyn after his father’s factory was lost during the Soviet Revolution. He married his longtime muse Ada Katz in the 1950s.
