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  • Literature

    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 413

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Camouflage paintings were the culmination of both his lifelong need to disguise himself and his career-long quest to come up with an abstract art that would make the anti-Pop mandarmins of the New York art world look at his work in a more favorable light. (Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol Camouflage, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1998)

  • 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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Camouflage

1987
Unique screenprint in fluorescent colors, on Lenox Museum Board paper, the full sheet,
S. 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
with the Andy Warhol ©1987 stamp and the stamped certificate of authenticity, signed by Frederick Hughes(executor of the Estate), titled and numbered `TP 23/84' in pencil on the reverse, occasional minor scuffing, otherwise in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $60,000

Modern and Contemporary Editions

15 Nov 2009
New York