Andy Warhol - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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    Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann IV.71A

  • 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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Beauty is Shoe, Shoe Beauty..., from A la recherche du shoe perdu

circa 1955
Offset lithograph with hand-coloring and silver leaf, on irregularly cut wove paper, with full margins,
I. 3 x 7 1/8 in. (7.6 x 18.1 cm);
S. 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (24.8 x 34.9 cm)

with the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. inkstamp and numbered A119.083 in pencil on the reverse, very pale light-staining, occasional soft handling creases, a spot of errant media on the reverse, otherwise in good condition, framed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York