Old Art, New Art, According to Alex Katz — NAD NOW
“The water lilies are on the pond in Maine and I’ve been looking at them for 50 years but I never touched them because of Monet… But I said you’re going to do it, and I just did it,” Alex Katz (ANA 1990; NA 1994) remarked in an interview for Phaidon upon beginning his series of paintings of Maine’s water lilies, on view at Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris through September 2.
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From the first drawing to the last painting in the Homage series, the landscape remains the same, but the narration behind each is profoundly divergent.”
