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

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    see Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 201

  • 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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PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE

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Space Fruit: Still-lifes portfolio: Cantaloupes I

1979
Unique screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet,
S. 30 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. (76.8 x 101.9 cm)
a color variant aside from the edition of 150, with the Estate of Andy Warhol inkstamps on the reverse, numbered `EXTRA 191.121' in pencil, published by Grippi/Zivian, Inc., New York, a soft crease at lower right corner (with associated cracking in the inks), hinged to the support at the reverse of the corners (with associated minor puckering on the front), otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $6,000

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York