Acquired directly from the artist
Paul and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins
Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art Part II, May 19, 1999, lot 298
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Disputación Provincial de Málaga, Sala de Exposiciones Alameda; Ayuntamiento de Vigo, Casa de las Artes, Post pictóricopop: Noland - Warhol, March 31 - May 14, 2000, then traveled to Vigo, Spain, Museo Municipale "Quinones de Leon", July 24 - September, 2000
Disputación Provincial de Málaga, Post pictóricopop: Noland - Warhol, Sala de Exposiciones Alameda; Ayuntamiento de Vigo, Casa de las Artes, 2000, pp. 54-55 (illustrated)
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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