Andy Warhol - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, February 14, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Hauswedell & Nolte, ‘Kunst nach 1945’, 8 June 2001, lot 856
    Thomas Dane, London
    Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
    Private Collection, Germany

  • 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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Watches, Clocks and Mirror

circa 1954
watercolour and ink on paper
54.5 x 43 cm (21.5 x 17 in)
Stamped by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board Inc. and numbered ‘71682’ on the reverse.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £18,750

Contemporary Art Day Sale

15 February 2013
London