Andy Warhol - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 18, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Coskun & Company Fine Art, London

  • 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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Moon Explorer Robot

1983
Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas.
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm).
This work is stamped with an estate seal and numbered “PA20.220” on the reverse and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $180,000

Contemporary Art Part II

18 May 2007
10am & 2pm New York