Private Collection
Sotheby's, London, February 24, 1995, lot 328
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage; Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta; Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack Museum; Kunsthalle Helsinki; Warsaw, The National Museum; Krakow, The National Museum; Kochi, The Museum of Art; Umeda, Daimaru Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Nagoya City Art Museum; Niigata City Art Museum, Andy Warhol, May 25, 1995 - February 12, 2001
Donna De Salvo, ed., Success is a Job in New York...The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol, New York, 1989, no. 22A, p. 22 (illustrated)
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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