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  • Literature

    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 263

  • Catalogue Essay

    Tuesday, December 9, 1980
    ....When I got there Howdy Doody was waiting for me. I'm doing his portrait, he's one of the Big Myths.
    The Andy Warhol Diaries p.347

  • 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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Property of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

329

Myths: Howdy Doody

1981
Screenprint in colors with diamond dust, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet,
S. 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
signed and numbered 47/200 in pencil (there were also 30 artist's proofs), published by Ronald Feldman Fine Art, Inc., New York, a few minor scuffs (visible in darker inks), a crease at lower left corner (with associated minor cracking in the inks), a very thin line of ink loss at lower right, a few nicks at the sheet edges (particularly corners), otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $25,000

Editions

8 June 2010
New York