Andy Warhol - Under the Influence New York Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    ART FOR McGOVERN benefit auction, New York 1972

  • Literature

    F. Feldman and J. Schellmann eds., Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, New York, 2003, p.114 (illustrated), pp. 12, 80 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    This series is based on the photograph of Richard Nixon on the cover of Newsweek, January 27, 1969 and was published to raise funds for the George McGovern campaign for president.

  • 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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Vote McGovern

1972
Screenprint on paper.
42 x 42 in. (106.7 x 106.7 cm).
Signed and numbered of 250 "Andy Warhol" on the reverse. This work is from an edition of 250 plus 22 proofs.

Estimate
$8,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $12,000

Under the Influence

26 Feb 2007, 10am & 2pm
New York