Andy Warhol - Evening Editions New York Thursday, April 21, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 198-203

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Cantaloupes II; Watermelon; Apples; Cantaloupes I; Peaches; and Pears

  • 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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Space Fruit: Still Lifes portfolio

1979
The complete set of six screenprints in colors, on 4-ply Lenox Museum Board, the full sheets,
all S. 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
all signed and numbered `II/XXX' in felt pen (one of 30 in Roman numerals there was also an edition of 150), published by Grippi/Zivian, Inc., New York (with their blindstamp), all with the Andy Warhol Copyright inkstamp on the reverse,  all in very good condition, all framed.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $52,500

Evening Editions

21 April 2011
New York