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A wonderful framed serigraph entitled "The Swimmer" by the pop portraitist, Alex Katz. This serigraph is signed by the artist in pencil, lower right and numbered in pencil, left and features Alex Katz's famous portrait-pop style and was created in 1992.

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.

The Swimmer is a charming piece that showcases the work of Alex Katz.