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Impala

1968

Alex Katz

(American, b. 1927)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 187 x 278 x 4 cm (73 5/8 x 109 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 182.9 x 276.9 cm (72 x 109 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and Gift of the Eppler Family Foundation and Agnes Gund 1983.68
Copyright
© Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Katz made five quick oil sketches prior to composing Impala; because of his preparations the final image was completed in just one session.

Description

Impala is one of at least 80 portraits Alex Katz painted of his wife, Ada. Here, he presents her as a passenger in the vivid red interior of a 1960s Chevy Impala on a drive through the American Southwest. A mountainous view of Utah is visible through the car window. Combining realism and abstraction, Katz borrows the large scale and bold forms of Abstract Expressionism to invigorate his straightforward approach to figurative painting.
Horizontally oriented oil painting depicting a woman with with light skin tone sitting in profile, looking ahead from the passenger seat of a red car. Her brown hair is pulled back in a ponytail with a purple tie, and she wears a blue and white horizontally striped shirt under a blue sweatshirt. Out the window extend jagged peach pink and green hills under a blue sky with white clouds striated with grey.

Impala

1968

Alex Katz

(American, b. 1927)
America

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