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

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  • Provenance

    Gift of the artist

  • Literature

    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann IV.52-68

  • 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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25 Cats Named Sam and one Blue Pussy book

1954
The complete set of seventeen offset lithographs, six with hand-coloring, on wove papers, bound (as issued),
9 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 1/4 in. (23.5 x 15.6 x .6 cm)
from the edition of 190, pale staining near the sheet edges, the watercolor offsetting slightly on adjacent pages, red cat with a crease in lower sheet, the hardcover splitting at the rear spine, minor wear, otherwise all in very good condition.

Estimate
$18,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $37,500

Editions

8 June 2011 New York