Alex Katz, 1982 – Bicycle Rider

Description

Part of the portfolio New York: Eight Contemporary Artists Celebrate Their City, comprising eight prints by Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R. B. Kitaj, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and James Rosenquist, published by the New York Graphic Society, Ltd., Waterbury, Conn., 1983

Lithograph in seventeen colors on Arches Cover paper

SHEET: 22 x 30 in. (55.8 x 76.2 cm)

Signed and numbered in pencil, lower left

EDITION: 250, 25 AP, 5 PP; Deluxe Edition: 35, 10 AP

Printed by John C. Erickson and Joseph Petruzzelli, Siena Studio, Inc., New York

Published by the New York Graphic Arts Society, Ltd., Waterbury, Conn.

LITERATURE: Maravell 1983, cat. no. 130

NOTES: The portfolio is contained in a linen covered portfolio box. Based on the painting Bicycle Rider (1982; sale at Christie’s, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, 2003). The motif was used for the poster Bicycling Central Park (1983).