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

1985
Unique screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet,
S. 39 7/8 x 32 in. (101.3 x 81.3 cm)
with the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. Outside the Published Edition inkstamp and numbered `118.089' in pencil on the reverse, with the original Authentication Board documentation, one of 80 individual unnumbered trial proofs (aside from the portfolio of four screenprints in an edition of 60 and 15 artist's proofs), published by Hermann Wünsche, Bonn, framed.

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$20,000 - 30,000 

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016