Andy Warhol - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 18, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Peter Gwyther Gallery, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999

  • Literature

    see Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 85-88

  • 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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136

Sunset (see F. & S. 85-88)

1972
Unique screenprint in colors, on smooth wove paper, the full sheet.
S. 34 x 34 in. (86.4 x 86.4 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 155/470 in pencil on the reverse (from the total edition of 632 unique impressions), published by David Whitney, New York, with the 'Hotel Marquette Prints' inkstamp on the reverse, framed.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $190,500

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 18 - 20 April 2023