“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.”
—Andy Warhol
Provenance
Christie’s, New York, Prints and Multiples, 31 October 2012, lot 374 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
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.
1982 Unique screenprint in colours, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet. S. 50.2 x 39.9 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.) Signed and numbered 45/60 in pencil (from the edition of unique variants, there were also 10 artist’s proofs), published by the artist (with his copyright inkstamp on the reverse), framed.
