Andy Warhol - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Phillips
  • “I think [Andy Warhol] had the sharpest mind of anyone I have ever known. He could see it all, but never really showed it on the outside. He was very comfortable with John and me. I guess he just felt relaxed. He didn’t have to put up a façade, worrying about what he said, or what he did. That’s maybe the reason why we were good friends. He was the most generous artist.”
    —Kimiko Powers

     
    • Provenance

      Kimiko and John Powers, Aspen (acquired directly from the artist)
      Rose and Sam Weintraub, New York
      Linda and Douglas Weintraub, New York
      Sotheby’s, New York, May 13, 2009, lot 184
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Johns, Stella, Warhol: Works in Series, October 4–November 26, 1972, pp. 34, 46 (illustrated, p. 34)
      New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70’s, November 20, 1979–January 27, 1980, pp. 111, 137 (illustrated, p. 111)
      Hong Kong, I Club, Andy Warhol: Celebrity Portraits, September–December 1982, p. 39 (illustrated)

    • Literature

      Ranier Crone, Das Bildnerische Werk Andy Warhols, Berlin, 1976, no. 588, p. 358
      David Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, pl. 254, pp. 328–329 (illustrated, p. 329)
      Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1993, no. 3, pp. 40–41, 155 (illustrated, p. 41)
      Donald Kennison and Jessie Washburne-Harris, Pop Art: The John and Kimiko Powers Collection, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2001, p. 10 (illustrated)
      Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 3, London, 2010, no. 2186, pp. 102, 107, 111 (illustrated, p. 107 and on the foldout)
      Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 05A, London, 2018, p. 181

    • 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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Kimiko Powers

signed, partially titled and dated "Kimiko Andy Warhol 72" on the overlap
acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
Executed in 1972.

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Estimate
$300,000 - 400,000 

Sold for $952,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 November 2023