Graphic from the cover of the original pamphlet that accompanied Ten from Leo Castelli. Design © Elaine Lustig Cohen Ten prints and graphic objects by as many artists comprise the startling portfolio-in-a-box entitled Ten from Leo Castelli. Ten from Leo Castelli testifies eloquently to the avant-garde’s intense involvement with printmaking today. The renaissance in printmaking was accelerated in the mid-1960’s by a conceptual reorientation of aesthetics. Its visual manifestations, in relationship to printmaking of the past, sometimes seemed startling, and its implication and possibilities were extraordinary.
The present Ten from Leo Castelli, more than any other edition yet published, personifies “the new look in prints.” Never before has the artist had so many opportunities for the realization of graphic images. The once sacred boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture, and prints have been assaulted. Three-dimensional forms, often in part hand-painted or hand-stenciled, are completely acceptable as graphic objects. No longer must an artist suffer artificial restrictions imposed by arbitrary classifications of individual media.
—William S. Lieberman, in his introduction to Ten from Leo CastelliLiterature
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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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Portraits of the Artists, from Ten from Leo Castelli (F. & S. 17)
1967
One hundred screenprints in black, on acrylic boxes in 10 colors, encased in a custom acrylic box and stand.
20 x 20 x 3/4 in. (50.8 x 50.8 x 1.9 cm)
Incised with initials and numbered 157/200 on the reverse of the blue box with Warhol's portrait (there were also 25 proofs lettered A-Y), published for the 10th anniversary of Leo Castelli Gallery by Tanglewood Press, Inc., New York.
Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $25,400
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