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

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016 

  • Literature

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  • Catalogue Essay

    Bill Leonard, director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati from 1964-71, was one of the most discerning contemporary art leaders in the Midwest during his tenure.
    In 1966 he organized the Andy Warhol exhibition Holy Cow! Silver Clouds! Holy Cow!
    Warhol came to the show at the Art Center and brought along Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with The Velvet Underground and Nico who played the Music Hall Ballroom on Nov. 3, 1966.

  • 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 from the collection of the late Bill Leonard

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Andy Warhol

Cow Wallpaper, Wall panels

1966
Screenprint in colors, on wallpaper mounted to six canvas panels,
each 90 x 28 3/8 in. (228.6 x 72.1 cm)
one signed in pencil on the reverse.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $100,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016