PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION
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Andy Warhol
Vote McGovern
- Estimate
- $20,000 - 30,000
$43,750
Lot Details
Screenprint in colors, on Arches 88 paper, the full sheet,
1972
S. 42 x 42 in (106.7 x 106.7 cm)
signed and numbered 250/250 in blue ink on the reverse, published by Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles (with their blindstamp), in very good condition, framed.
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Catalogue Essay
After Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer and Robert Rauschenberg along with other artists and literati who werecritical of him were audited by the Internal revenue service. As a result,Warhol began dictating a daily diary to Pat Hackett. Until his death in 1987 the daily calls lasted about an hour, she documented all his allowable deductions along with celebrity anecdotes, their triviality, their lack of engagement with world events. of parties attended, champagne drunk, cabs taken – and dollars spent. He hangs out with "everybody": Bianca Jagger ("God, she's dumb"), Jackie O ("thinks she's so grand she doesn't even owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big"), Yoko ("We dialed F-U-C-K-Y-O-U and L-O-V-E-Y-O-U to see what happened, we had so much fun") and "Princess Marina of I guess Greece"
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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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