Alex Katz Coca-Cola Girl 9 For Sale

About this work

Alex Katz has long occupied a singular position in contemporary American art, bridging the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art while maintaining a fiercely independent visual language. Now in his late nineties, Katz continues to command significant attention in both primary and secondary markets, with institutional collections worldwide—including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate—holding substantial bodies of his work. Coca-Cola Girl 9, created in 2019, belongs to a series that revisits one of Katz's enduring preoccupations: the billboard-scale depiction of contemporary femininity rendered with his characteristic economy of line and flattened pictorial space. The expansive horizontal format, measuring over eight feet in width, amplifies the cinematic quality that has defined his portraiture since the 1960s. Executed as a silkscreen on Saunders Waterford fine art paper, the work demonstrates Katz's continued mastery of the print medium, translating the immediacy of his painted surfaces into a graphic vocabulary that loses none of its visual impact. The edition of 60 represents a relatively accessible entry point into Katz's printed oeuvre, though works from this period have shown consistent appreciation as collectors recognize the continued vitality of his late-career output. The Coca-Cola Girl series itself speaks to Katz's longstanding dialogue with American consumer culture and the representation of modern leisure, themes that have ensured his relevance across multiple generations of artistic discourse. Guy Hepner welcomes inquiries regarding the acquisition of this work.