Andy Warhol - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 25, 2016 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016 

  • Provenance

    Gift of the artist to the present owner

  • Literature

    Fradya Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 26

  • Catalogue Essay

    Saturday, August 2, 1986

    …. We asked Prince if he would be our December cover (Interview magazine) and he said we’d have to talk to his manager and we said that we’d asked the manager and the manager said to ask him, so they said they’d work it out. We were just shaking, it was so exciting. And Billy Idol was there and you know, seeing these two glamour boys, its like boys are the new Hollywood glamour girls, like Harlow and Marilyn. So weird.

    The Andy Warhol Diaries, p. 749

  • 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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Andy Warhol

Marilyn

1967
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, the full sheet,
S. 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
signed with initials and dated `67' in pencil, also signed twice and inscribed `to Arman' and `to Ron and Gertie Jacobs' in black ink and red pencil respectively on the reverse (one of 26 artist's proofs, the edition was 250), published by Factory Additions, New York, framed.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $68,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016