Andy Warhol - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 15, 2009 | Phillips

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    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 94

  • 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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Mao

1972
Screenprint in colors, on Beckett High White paper, the full sheet,
S. 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
signed in blue ball-point pen and stamp numbered 40/250 (there were also 50 artist's proofs), published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York, with the Andy Warhol copyright stamp on the reverse, the sheet slightly toned, occasional handling creases (several with associated cracking of the inks), a crease beside the right eye (with associated cracking), otherwise in good condition, framed.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $37,500

Modern and Contemporary Editions

15 Nov 2009
New York