Andy Warhol - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 29 June 2022

  • Provenance

    Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples
    Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1985)
    Sotheby's, London, 27 June 2002, lot 175
    Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Vesuvius by Warhol, 18 July - 31 October 1985, p. 64 (illustrated, p. 65)

  • Literature

    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987, no. IIB.365, p. 202 (another variant illustrated)

  • 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

Vesuvius

signed 'Andy Warhol' lower right; stamped by the Fondazione Amelio Instituto per l'arte contemporanea Napoli ' © Andy Warhol 1985 Fondazione Amelio Instituto per l'arte contemporanea Napoli' on the reverse
unique screenprint on Arches 88 paper
80 x 100 cm (31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Executed in 1985, this work is from a series of 57 unique colour variant screenprints.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 ‡

Sold for £138,600

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 29 June 2022