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Andy Warhol
Alexander the Great (see F. & S. 291-292)
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- £60,000 - 80,000‡
£139,700
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Unique screenprint in colours, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet.
1982
S. 101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in.)
Signed and numbered 'TP 2/65' in pencil (a unique colour variant trial proof, there were also 15 trial proofs in Arabic numerals and 8 trial proofs in Roman numerals, both on different sized papers, the edition was 25 and 5 artist's proofs), with the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse, published by Alexander lolas, New York, in co-operation with the Hellenic Heritage Foundation, to coincide with the exhibition The Search for Alexander at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 October 1982 to 3 January 1983, 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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