Andy Warhol - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am

  • Provenance

    Private Collection

  • 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

Paratrooper Boots: Positive and Negative (Diptych)

circa 1985-1986
synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas
each 20 1/8 x 16 in. (51.1 x 40.6 cm)
Stamped by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., further stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol along the overlap and numbered "PA10.452" along the overlap and stretcher of Positive . Stamped by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and Estate of Andy Warhol and numbered "PA10.458" along the overlap of Negative .

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $110,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am