Andy Warhol - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips

Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024

  • Provenance

    The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., New York
    Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
    Lord Jeffrey Archer Collection, London
    Modern Collections LLP, London
    Acquired from the above 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

Prince Charles

stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. stamps and numbered '115.396' on the reverse
graphite on paper
80.6 x 61 cm (31 3/4 x 24 in.)
Executed circa 1982.

Estimate
£60,000 - 100,000 ‡

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024