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A very interesting and beautiful aquatint etching by the pop portraitist, Alex Katz, which is entitled "Man with Pipe" and is signed by the artist in pencil, lower left and numbered in pencil, lower right. This framed aquatint etching was printed by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris on Hahnemuhle papier rives and published by The Brooklyn Museum, NY. Alex Katz is well known for his great modern pop portraits and this is a great example of his style and breath of his work.

Alex Katz is a leading figure painter of the new realism movement in contemporary art. He is best known for his realistic portraits of friends and family, notable for their relaxed attitudes and uncomplicated bearing. Katz was born in New York City, and studied art at the Cooper Union from 1945 to 1949. In the late 1950s, he found himself among a growing number of artists dissatisfied with the then-dominant stream of abstract expressionism, with its emphasis on formal abstraction. A summer resident of Lincolnville, Maine since 1954, he has developed a close relationship with local Colby College. The college presented him with an honorary doctorate in 1984. In October 1996, the Colby College Museum of Art opened a wing dedicated to Katz that features more than 400 oil paintings, collages, and prints donated by the artist.

This Alex Katz aquatint etching is a great piece of pop art.