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    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

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Martha Graham: Letter to the World (The Kick)

1986
Unique screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet,
S. 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
a proof apart from the edition of 100 and 25 artist's proofs, published by Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc., New York, with The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts inkstamps on the reverse, a few scuffs in right sheet, creasing at upper left corner (with associated cracking in the inks), otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $23,750

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York