Andy Warhol - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 15, 2009 | 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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Flowers (Black and White): two plates

1974
Two screenprints, on wove paper, the full sheets,
both S. 40 3/4 x 27 in. (103.5 x 68.6 cm)
both signed with initials on the front, dated '74' and numbered 10/100 in pencil on the reverse (there were no recorded artist's proofs), published by Peter Brant, Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York (with the Castelli Graphics and Andy Warhol copyright stamp on the reverse), both with areas of soft rubbing outside of the drawn image (mainly visible in raking light), otherwise both in very good condition, both framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $6,875

Modern and Contemporary Editions

15 Nov 2009
New York