Andy Warhol - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Phillips

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    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 21

  • 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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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. JOHN DRISCOLL, NEW YORK

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Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn)

1967
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, the full sheet,
S. 6 x 6 in. (15.2 x 15.2 cm).
signed in pencil, stamp numbered 16/100 on the reverse, (there are also artist's proofs signed and annotated 'a.p.' on the reverse), published by Factory Additions, New York, to announce the publication of the Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) portfolio, minute insect damage in the upper right corner, slight surface wear at center right, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $31,000

Modern and Contemporary Editions

21 May 2008, 2pm
New York