Alex Katz: Five Hours, a Film by Vivien Bittencourt & Vincent Katz 1996

Overview

When Alex Katz paints one of his large, signature paintings, it is an act of the utmost concentration, a performance in which he draws on years of experience as well as preliminary sketches, painted studies, finished drawings, and a large charcoal cartoon, as he transfers the bare bones of the image to his canvas.