Andy Warhol - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York

  • Exhibited

    Cologne, Jablonka Galerie, Andy Warhol: Cosmos, 25 April 2003
    Moscow, Stella Art Gallery, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Wesselmann, 28 November 2003 - 31 January 2004

  • Literature

    Andy Warhol: Cosmos, Exh. Cat., Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, 2003, pp. 7, 21
    Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Wesselmann, Exh. Cat., Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, 2004, pp. 50, 51

  • 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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Four Works: (i), (ii) Saturn and Moons; (iii), (iv) Sun and Moon (Eclipse)

c. 1984
screenprint on acetate with coloured graphic art paper collage
each sheet 40.6 x 35.6 cm. (15 7/8 x 14 in.)
image (i) 30.8 x 24.3 cm. (12 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.); (ii) 32.8 x 25.6 cm. (12 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.); (iii) 33 x 29.5 cm. (12 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.); (iv) 34.3 x 27.3 cm. (13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)

Each work is respectively numbered ‘101.009, 101.010, 101.018, 101.031’ on the reverse. These works are accompanied by certificates of authenticity from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Estimate
£35,000 - 45,000 

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London 28 June 2013 2pm