Andy Warhol - Photographs London Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
    Private Collection, Switzerland

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Bianca Jagger at Halston’s House, New York; His Holiness Pope John Paul II, St. Peter’s Square, Rome; Henry Kissinger & Elisabeth Taylor Warner, Washington, D.C.; Truman Capote at Home, New York; Salvador Dali & Ultra Violet, New York; Diana Vreeland, “Empress of Fashion”, New York; Halston at Home, New York; Tennessee Williams & Producer Lester Persky, New York; Liza Minnelli at Halston’s House, New York; Andy Warhol, Self Portrait, Montauk, Long Island; Peter Malatesta & Monique van Vooren, Washington, D.C.; Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli, & Jacqueline Onassis in Liza’s dressing Room, New York

  • 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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Photographs

Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger Gallery/New York: Andy Warhol, 1980. Twelve gelatin silver prints, printed by Chris Makos.
Each approximately 30 × 40 cm (11 3/4 × 15 3/4 in)
Each signed and numbered 14/250 in pencil on the verso; sequentially embossed number ‘1–12’ on the reverse of each mount. Numbered in ink in an unidentified hand on reverse of the title page. Colophon. Contained in a linen and leatherette clamshell case.

Estimate
£45,000 - 55,000 

Photographs

17 May 2012
London