As well as paintings he has had a prolific career in printmaking, producing numerous editions.
Pictured here are examples of two of these that came up for sale recently in auctions on either side of the Atlantic.
Doyle’s (26/21/15% buyer’s premium) sale of Prints and Multiples on April 25 included five works by Katz, three of which realised new auction highs for the prints in question.
They were led at $25,000 (£20,160) by a 4ft x 3ft (1.2m x 91cm) screen print of Ada with Flowers from 1980, a portrait of his wife behind a large bunch of blooms.
Signed and numbered 23/65 in pencil and co-published by the artist and Simca Prints Artists Inc New York, it came from the Flower Family collection, win recent months this year, and had a provenance to the Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston.
On May 6 in Dusseldorf a sale held by Dr Andreas Sturies (20% buyer’s premium) included a 2ft 2in x 3ft (66 x 92cm) screen print from 1990. Ada in Hat, signed and numbered 19 from an edition of 150 published by Gaultney-Klineman in New York, realised €17,000 (€15,045).
