Andy Warhol - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Monday, February 10, 2014 | Phillips

Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Day Sale 11 February 2014 2pm

  • Provenance

    Private Collection

  • Literature

    Felda Frayman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1985, p.282

  • 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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Andy Warhol

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1982
screenprint, a unique colour variant, on Lenox Museum board
101.4 x 80.6 cm. (39 7/8 x 31 3/4 in.)
Signed and numbered ‘31/35 Andy Warhol’ lower right. Stamped and dated ‘© ANDY WARHOL 1982’ on a label affixed to the reverse. Sheet marked with the printer’s blind stamp lower left. This work is number 31 from an edition of 35 plus 10 artist’s proofs and 2 printer’s proofs and this is a unique colour variant.

Estimate
£70,000 - 100,000 ‡

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Day Sale 11 February 2014 2pm