Andy Warhol - Photographs New York Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Phillips
  • "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, and films, and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it." —Andy Warhol

    • Provenance

      McCaffrey Fine Art, New York
      Private Collection, London

    • 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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Self Portrait in Fright Wig

1986
Unique Polaroid print.
4 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. (12.1 x 7.3 cm)
Initialed 'T.J.H.' by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation in pencil and 'Estate of Andy Warhol,' 'Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' stamps on the verso.

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Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $21,420

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Photographs

New York Auction 7 October 2021