Andy Warhol - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 23, 2008 | Phillips

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  • 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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Cow

1966
Screenprint in colors, on wall paper, the full sheet,
S. 45 3/4 x 29 1/2 in. (116.2 x 74.9 cm)
from the unlimited edition, published by the artist and printed by Bill Miller Wall Paper Studio, New York, printed June 13, 1971, during his exhibition at the whitney Museum (F. & S. only calls for the Blue/brown combination but this color combination was also installed), a few areas of skinning on the reverse (by the sheet edges), taped to the overmat along the reverse of the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $6,000

Modern and Contemporary Editions

23 Nov 2008, 2pm
New York