Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 414

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

JONATHAN NED KATZ (1938- )


Untitled (Nude Portait).
Collage and acrylic on canvas. 914x609 mm; 36x24 inches. Signed, initialed "JNK" and dated "11-7-2011" in ink, canvas overflap. 2011.

Provenance: private collection, New York.

Jonathan Ned Katz studied at New York's High School of Music and Art. From 1960 until 1972 he worked as a textile designer. His career path changed in 1972 upon the acclaimed release of his documentary play, Coming Out!, presented in New York City by the Gay Activists Alliance. He has since published numerous books about gender and sexuality, lectured at Yale, run a seminar at Princeton, and given a keynote address at Harvard. In 2008 Katz launched Outhistory.org. After attending life drawing classes at Leslie-Lohman Gay Men's Erotic Drawing Workshop and drawing and painting classes at the LGBT Center, NY Jonathan Ned Katz started showing his work in group shows and in 2013 had a one-man show at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NY.