Andy Warhol - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 3, 2018 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 4 October 2018

  • Provenance

    The Andy Warhol Studio, New York
    Private Collection, London (acquired from the above)
    Private Collection, Norway

  • 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

Reagan Budget

stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., numbered and initialed 'VF PA10.426' on the overlap
synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas
50.9 x 40.4 cm (20 x 15 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1985-86.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for £56,250

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 4 October 2018