PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
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Andy Warhol
Mao
- Estimate
- $25,000 - 35,000
$40,000
Lot Details
Screenprint in colors, on Beckett High White paper, the full sheet,
1972
S. 36 x 36 in (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
a proof aside from the published edition of 250 and 50 artist's proofs, co-published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York, with the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. Outside the Published Edition inkstamp in blue, numbered `A145.103' in pencil and with the Andy Warhol copyright inkstamp on the reverse, generally in excellent condition, framed.
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MONDAY, March 5, 1984
I read the book about Mrs. Chairman Mao called WHITE BONED DEMON and I decided to do paintings of her. It was great, about how she went from prostitute to Chairman Mao's wife. But I mean, how this guy wrote this stuff I dont know. I mean, going back to individual days in her childhood and remembering if she was happy or sad. I mean, they dont even know what happened to her mother, let alone if she was unhappy on Tuesday in May 1937! The Mrs Mao book didn't have any pictures in it so now I have to find some.
The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat hackett, p. 556
I read the book about Mrs. Chairman Mao called WHITE BONED DEMON and I decided to do paintings of her. It was great, about how she went from prostitute to Chairman Mao's wife. But I mean, how this guy wrote this stuff I dont know. I mean, going back to individual days in her childhood and remembering if she was happy or sad. I mean, they dont even know what happened to her mother, let alone if she was unhappy on Tuesday in May 1937! The Mrs Mao book didn't have any pictures in it so now I have to find some.
The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat hackett, p. 556
Literature
Andy Warhol
American | B. 1928 D. 1987Andy 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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