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Andy Warhol
Cow (F. & S. 12A)
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- £8,000 - 12,000†
£16,510
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Screenprint in colours, on wallpaper, the full sheet.
1976
S. 116.7 x 75.4 cm (45 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.)
From the unlimited edition (approximately 100 were signed in 1979), with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Visual Arts Foundation inkstamps, initialled 'T.J.H.' by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation and annotated '0615 AWF.188' in pencil on the reverse, published by Factory Additions, New York, for the Warhol exhibition at the Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Center, Seattle, 18 November 1976 to 9 January 1977, printed in the United States, 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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