Andy Warhol - Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Phillips

Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale

London Auction 27 June 2024

  • Provenance

    Stellan Holm Gallery, New York​
    Private Collection, London
    Phillips London, 7 December 2017, lot 140
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • 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

Untitled (Marilyn)

stamped ‘© Andy Warhol’ lower left; stamped twice by The Estate of Andy Warhol and stamped by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., on the reverse
silkscreen ink on paper
57.1 x 44.6 cm (22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
Executed circa 1978.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 ‡

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale

London Auction 27 June 2024