Property from a Contemporary Family Collection
170
Andy Warhol
Grapes D.D. (Diamond Dust): one plate (see F. & S. 191A)
- Estimate
- $15,000 - 25,000
$44,450
Lot Details
Screenprint in colors with diamond dust, on Strathmore Bristol paper, the full sheet.
1979
S. 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and numbered 'II/IV' in black ink (from the special edition with diamond dust, the regular edition without diamond dust was 50 in Arabic numerals), published by Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc., New York, unframed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"[Grapes D.D. (Diamond Dust)] is an edition of four numbered in Roman numerals and 1 PP; all are signed and numbered in felt pen. Grapes D.D. is not illustrated in the catalogue because the diamond dust is so fine as to be indistinguishable in photographs. This is the first time Warhol used diamond dust in prints; thereafter, he used coarser particles of diamond dust." - Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, p. 216
Literature
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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