Andy Warhol - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 29, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York 29 April 2013 10am & 6pm

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    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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Andy Warhol

Watermelon, from Space Fruits: Still Lifes portfolio

1979
Screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet,
S. 30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
signed (faded) and numbered 43/150 in felt pen (there were also 30 in Roman numeralson 4 ply Lenox board), published by Grippi/Zivian, Inc., New York, in very good condition, framed.

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$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,250

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 29 April 2013 10am & 6pm