Andy Warhol - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 28, 2014 | Phillips
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    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 32-42

  • Catalogue Essay

    For years Warhol couldn't let go of the John F. Kennedy assassination and the events around it. He kept returning to related images, especially of Jacqueline Kennedy, which became some of his best known paintings. Finally, as if in a bid for closure, he printed a portfolio of the pictures he collected, titled it Flash--November 22, 1963 and put one of that day's stunner headlines, "President Shot Dead" on the cover.

    Holland Cotter Pop Rides the News Cycle, New York Times, October 20, 2011

  • 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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Flash - November 22, 1963

1968
The complete set of 11 screenprints in colors, on wove paper, the full sheets, with colophon and Teletype text,
S. 22 1/4 x 22 in. (56.5 x 55.9 cm)
ten prints signed in blue ball-point pen on the reverse, the colophon signed and numbered 81 from the edition of 200 on the front and inscribed `to Charles Rydell with love Andy Warhol’ on the reverse in blue ball-point pen, one folder signed and inscribed `to Jerome Hill Andy Warhol’ (there was also an edition of 26 in Roman numerals), published by Racolin Press, Inc., Briarcliff Manor, New York, contained in original linen-covered hardcover folder, screenprinted in silver, lacking Plexiglas box.

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