The Andy Warhol Foundation, New York Private Collection, Great Britain Christie's, London, 10 February 2005, lot 158 Pollock Fine Art, London Acquired from the above by the present owner on 27 June 2007
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.
stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts Inc., New York, and numbered 'VF 114.080' on the reverse graphite on paper 71.4 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 7/8 in.) Executed circa 1978.
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £88,200
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