The Estate of Andy Warhol, New York Private Collection Phillips, New York, November 12, 2002, lot 119 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987, New York, 1997, no. IIIA.6, p. 216 (another variant from the series illustrated) Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987, New York, 2003, no. IIIA.3 (another variant from the series illustrated)
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.
stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York, initialed and numbered "VF UP 48.62" on the reverse silkscreen ink on HMP paper image 18 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. (47 x 35.5 cm) sheet 31 1/2 x 24 in. (80 x 61 cm) Executed circa 1978, this work is unique.
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $113,400
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