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  • Literature

    see Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann IIB. 291-292

  • 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 a Gentleman in Florida

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Alexander the Great

1982
Unique screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet.
S. 39 7/8 x 39 7/8 in. (101.3 x 101.3 cm)
Signed and numbered 'TP 8/15' in pencil (one of 15 unique color variant trial proofs, there were also 65 in Arabic numerals and 8 in Roman numerals, both on different sized papers, the regular edition was 25 and 5 artist's proofs), published by Alexander lolas, New York (with the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse), in co-operation with the Hellenic Heritage Foundation to coincide with the Search for Alexander exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 October 1982 to 3 January 1983, framed.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $131,250

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 23 - 24 July 2020