Study for Philip Pearlstein
Katz is deeply invested in the social world of artists and poets, with all of their attendant rituals and codes. To his depiction of this world he brings a strong theatrical sensibility. Here we see Pearlstein, glass in hand, gesturing towards someone in the distance. His gaze and his arm, radically foreshortened so that it appears to break the plane of the support, address the surrounding gallery. The illusion places us in the middle of a party, with the museum for a setting and nearby visitors as the guests.
Artwork Details
- Title: Study for Philip Pearlstein
- Artist: Alex Katz (American, born Brooklyn, New York, 1927)
- Date: 1978
- Medium: Oil on aluminum cutout
- Dimensions: 11 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (29.2 × 21.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1979
- Object Number: 1979.213.2
- Rights and Reproduction: © Alex Katz
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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