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Alex Katz’s ‘Red Tulips’ Presented as a New Acquisition by Robert Fontaine Gallery

Miami · 13 Sept 2026 [REPORT]
Alex Katz’s ‘Red Tulips’ Presented as a New Acquisition by Robert Fontaine Gallery Image: Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami

Robert Fontaine Gallery’s news item presents Alex Katz’s ‘Red Tulips’ (1967) as a new acquisition.

The work dates from 1967 and is an oil painting on canvas.

It describes Katz as quietly revolutionizing figurative painting with an unexpected subject: tulips. The item says that, in the 1960s, Katz transformed this classical motif into something entirely modern.

ArtistAlex KatzGalleryRobert Fontaine GalleryCountryUnited StatesCityMiamiRegionNorth AmericaGenrePainting

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