Andy Warhol - New Now New York Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | Phillips

New Now

New York Auction 28 February 2018

  • Provenance

    The Estate of Andy Warhol
    The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York
    Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Cologne, Jablonka Galerie, Andy Warhol: Portrait Drawings, April 10 - June 1, 2001, no. 23, n.p. (illustrated)

  • 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

Heather Watts

stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York, initialed "VF", numbered "114.117" and inscribed "D1039" on the reverse
graphite on HMP paper
31 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (80 x 60.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1986, this work is accompanied by a certificate of provenance issued by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $27,500

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New Now

New York Auction 28 February 2018