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Andy Warhol
Work Boots (Positive)
- Estimate
- $60,000 - 80,000
Lot Details
synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and numbered "PA10.206" along the overlap.
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Catalogue Essay
"It doesn’t make any difference if I’m going to portray my own shoes or a Coke bottle or in interview or in film or in cable TV I’m going to portray a new face. Every time I do something the end effect is a portrait.”
Andy Warhol, 1981
Andy Warhol, 1981
Provenance
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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