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  • Provenance

    Lucio Amelio, Naples
    Galerie de France, Paris

  • Exhibited

    Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Ltd., Andy Warhol, January 8 - January 20, 1991
    Tel Aviv, Tel AvivMuseum of Art, Andy Warhol, August 27 - October 27, 1992
    Vienna, KunstHausWien, Andy Warhol, February 22 - May 30, 1993
    Athens, National Gallery, Andy Warhol, June 14 - August 10, 1993; Thessaloniki, August 27 - September 27, 1993
    Orlando, Orlando Museum of Art, Andy Warhol, October 9 - December 12, 1993
    Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Museum of Art, Andy Warhol, January 13 - March 13, 1994
    Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Andy Warhol 1928-1987, October 8 - November 20, 1994
    Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Andy Warhol, May 25 - October 1, 1995
    Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Andy Warhol, October 22, 1995 - February 11, 1996
    Ludwigshafen, Germany, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Andy Warhol, September 15, 1996 - January 12, 1997
    Helsinki Kunsthalle, Andy Warhol, August 23 - November 16, 1997
    Warsaw, The National Museum, Andy Warhol, March 6 - May 3, 1998; The National Museum, Cracow, May 19 - July 12, 1998
    Kochi, The Museum of Art, Andy Warhol, February 6 - March 26, 2000; The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, April 1 - May 21, 2000; Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka, May 24 - June 11, 2000; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, June 17 - July 30, 2000; Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, August 5 - October 1, 2000; Nagoya City Art Museum, October 7 - December 17, 2000; Niigata City Art Museum, January 4 - February 12, 2001

  • Literature

    M. Bonuomo, Vesuvius by Warhol, Museo di Capodimente, Naples, 1985 (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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Vesuvius

1985
ink and charcoal on Arches paper
23 x 31 in. (58.4 x 78.7 cm)
Signed and dated "Andy Warhol 1985" along the right margin.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $52,500

Contemporary Art Day Sale

16 November 2012
New York