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Andy Warhol
Speed Skater, from Art and Sports portfolio
- Estimate
- £4,000 - 6,000
£6,000
Lot Details
Screenprint in colours, on Arches Aquarelle paper, the full sheet,
1983
S. 84.6 x 61.3 cm (33 1/4 x 24 1/8 in)
signed and numbered 50/50 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs, from the Deluxe edition, there was also a standard edition of 150 on Arches 88 paper), published by Visconti Art Spectrum, Vienna, occasional soft creasing, otherwise in very good condition, framed.
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Catalogue Essay
From the portfolio Art and Sports, containing works from 17 artists; the original art portfolio of the XIV Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia.
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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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