Andy Warhol - Evening & Day Editions London Tuesday, June 14, 2022 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 14-15 June 2022

  • 'His last series of prints, 'Camouflage', published post-humously, has become a convenient metaphor for the enigma that was Andy Warhol… The prints are extremely difficult to reproduce accurately because of the use of fluorescent ink… Warhol transformed our understanding of the print into something quite different from what we believed it to be: in his hands it became unique, even unreproducible.'ii Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Distributed Art Publisher’s Inc., New York, 2003, pp. 32-33 

    • Provenance

      Guy Hepner, New York
      Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2016

    • Literature

      Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 412

    • 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

Camouflage (F. & S. 412)

1987
Screenprint in colours, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet.
S. 96.5 x 96.5 cm (38 x 38 in.)
Signed by Fredrick W. Hughes (Executor of the Estate of Andy Warhol), titled, annotated 'REG.ED' and numbered 64/80 in pencil on the stamped Certificate of Authenticity on the reverse, published by Andy Warhol, New York (with his copyright ink stamp on the reverse), framed.

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Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 ‡

Sold for £85,680

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 14-15 June 2022