Silkscreen in colors on Saunders 425gsm paper.

'Dancer 3' by Alex Katz is a silkscreen from 2019, measuring 152.4 × 91.4 cm. A woman in a pale lavender swimsuit stands in three-quarter rear view, arms extended, her blonde hair swept up — the pose caught mid-turn with a quality closer to stillness than motion. Flat, warm skin tones and clean contour lines sit against a near-black ground, a compositional strategy Katz has used across decades to strip portraiture down to its most legible elements. Katz built his reputation on large-scale figurative work that keeps one foot in American realism and the other in the flat-colour language of billboard design and fashion illustration. The 'Dancer' series belongs to that sustained practice of isolating the single figure — removed from narrative, from setting, from psychological cue — leaving form and colour to carry the full weight of the image.