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Andy Warhol
Portrait of the Artists, from Ten from Leo Castelli (F. & S. 17)
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- £10,000 - 15,000
£25,200
Lot Details
One hundred screenprints in black, on acrylic boxes in 10 colours.
1967
overall 51 x 51 cm (20 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
Incised with artist's initials and numbered 136/200 on the blue box with Warhol's portrait (there were also 25 proofs lettered A-Y), published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Leo Castelli Gallery by Tanglewood Press, Inc., New York, framed.
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Andy Warhol
American | B. 1928 D. 1987Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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