Andy Warhol - Wired: Online Auction London Wednesday, May 11, 2022 | Phillips

Wired: Online Auction

Online Auction 11 - 18 May 2022

  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol Drawings and Related Works 1951-1986, 13 February - 22 March 2003, p. 48 (illustrated, p. 49)

  • 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

Herai Shrine Kyoto, Japan

partially titled 'Herai Shrine in Kyoto' lower left; stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York and numbered 'VF 217.014' on the reverse
ballpoint pen on mead paper
34.6 x 27.6 cm (13 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1956.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £8,190

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Wired: Online Auction

Online Auction 11 - 18 May 2022