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Warhol in China

Hong Kong Auction 28 May

  • Provenance

    The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    (i), (ii), (vi): Woodstock, Blenheim Palace, Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, 1 October 2014 – 26 April 2015
    (viii): Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei, 11 December 2015 – 11 September 2016

  • Literature

    Nicholas Chambers, Michael Frahm and Tony Godfrey, eds., Warhol in China, Germany, 2014, (i) pp. 239, 304; (ii) pp. 109, 300; (iii) pp. 190, 303; (iv) p. 307; (v) pp. 214-215, 304; (vi) pp. 95, 300 ; (vii) p. 307; (viii) pp. 245, 305 (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Andy Warhol

    American • 1928 - 1987

    Andy 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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Andy Warhol

Eight works: (i) Street with Trees and Cart; (ii) Chinese Signage; (iii) Buffet Table; (iv) Billboards; (v) Street Scene; (vi) Coiled Incense; (vii) Billboard; (viii) Alfred Siu

1982
(i) - (vi), (viii): Each with blindstamp credit in the margin.
Each initialled ‘T.J.H.’ by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation in pencil, estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and date stamps on the verso.
Eight gelatin silver prints
Each image: 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (7 7/8 x 10 in.)
Each accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed in ink by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Estimate
HK$250,000 - 350,000 
€30,500-42,700
$32,100-44,900

Sold for HK$200,000

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Warhol in China

Hong Kong Auction 28 May