Andy Warhol - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 16, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Anthony d'Offay, London

  • Exhibited

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Andy Warhol Retrospective, October 2001 - January 2002;  London, Tate Modern, Warhol at Tate Modern, February - April 2002; Los Angeles, MOCA, Andy Warhol Retrospective, May 25 - August 18, 2002.

  • Literature

    H. Bastian, Andy Warhol Retrospective, London, 2002, p.76; A. Cumming, Andy Warhol: Men, San Francisco, 2004, p. 108

  • Artist Biography

    Andy Warhol

    American • 1928 - 1987

    Known as the “King of Pop,” Andy Warhol was the leading face of the Pop Art movement in the United States 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 like Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities like 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 a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Feet

ca. 1960
Ballpoint pen on paper.
17 x 13 7/8 in. (43.2 x 35.2 cm).
Stamped with the Estate and Foundation seals and numbered "212.008" on the reverse.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Contemporary Art Part II

16 May 2008, 10am & 2pm
New York