Silkscreen in colors on Saunders Waterford High White HP 425 gsm

'Olivia 1' by Alex Katz is a silkscreen measuring 150.1 × 102.6 cm, completed in 2025. A woman's face fills the composition in strict profile, cropped at the crown and jaw so that her features — arched brown brow, fanned lashes, coral lips — occupy nearly the full height of the sheet against a flat, cool grey ground. The skin is rendered in a single warm amber-orange, with only the subtlest tonal modelling at the cheek and chin. Katz has worked in this mode of large-scale, close-cropped portraiture for decades, reducing the figure to essential contour while retaining just enough descriptive detail to hold the image in the specific rather than the generic. The format and palette align with his ongoing practice of silkscreen printmaking, which amplifies the flatness already central to his painted work.