Silkscreen in colors on Saunders Waterford High White HP 425 gsm

'Olivia 3' by Alex Katz is a silkscreen printed in 2025, measuring 149.9 × 101.6 cm. The composition crops tightly on a woman's face and upper shoulders, rendered almost entirely in a flat, saturated amber-orange against a cool grey ground. Dark brown hair, strongly arched brows, and coral-tinted lips are the only tonal departures from that dominant field — along with a delicate layered necklace and a black collar that enter the frame at the lower edge. Katz has worked in large-scale, flat-colour portraiture since the 1960s, and this silkscreen — with its graphic economy of line and deliberate suppression of shadow — sits squarely within that sustained practice. The medium suits the method: screen printing's clean, layered colour planes amplify the same formal decisions Katz makes in paint, turning the face into something between likeness and emblem.