Andy Warhol - Editions New York Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | Phillips

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  • 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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Self-Portrait

1966
Offset lithograph, on silver coated paper, the full sheet,
S. 23 x 23 in. (58.4 x 58.4 cm)
signed, dated `66' and numbered 34/300 on the reverse, published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, occasional scuffs and soft creases, an abraded area at left (with associated ink and finish loss), a crease at
lip, two small pressure marks at ear, a pinpoint abrasion at
forehead, scuffing at lower right, a few soft creases at lower left (with associated cracking in the ink), a crease and tear at lower left, many creases along the sheet edges and corners, framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $13,750

Editions

8 June 2011 New York