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Andy Warhol
The Star, from Myths
- Estimate
- $40,000 - 60,000
$56,250
Lot Details
Screenprint in colors with diamond dust, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet,
1981
S. 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
signed and numbered 14/200 in pencil on the reverse (there were also 30 artist's proofs), published by Ronald Feldman Fine Art, Inc., New York, framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The Andy Warhol Diaries, Saturday, March 23, 1985
Worked, went to Karen Burke's (cab $4). And I followed Garbo around the streets. Took pictures of her. I'm pretty sure it was her. She had the dark glasses and the big coat and pants on and the mouth, and she went into Trader Horn store to talk to a woman about TVs. Just the kind of thing she would do. So i took pictures of her until I thought she would get mad and then I walked downtown. (laughs) I was alone, too. Stayed up all night until 5:10 getting ready for the next day to go to California for The Love Boat and now maybe a coke commercial too.
Worked, went to Karen Burke's (cab $4). And I followed Garbo around the streets. Took pictures of her. I'm pretty sure it was her. She had the dark glasses and the big coat and pants on and the mouth, and she went into Trader Horn store to talk to a woman about TVs. Just the kind of thing she would do. So i took pictures of her until I thought she would get mad and then I walked downtown. (laughs) I was alone, too. Stayed up all night until 5:10 getting ready for the next day to go to California for The Love Boat and now maybe a coke commercial too.
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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