Andy Warhol - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Monday, February 10, 2014 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc
    Christie’s, Hong Kong, Andy Warhol at Christie’s: A Private Selling Exhibition, 23-26 May 2013
    Gagosian Gallery, London

  • Exhibited

    Hong Kong, Christie’s, Andy Warhol at Christie’s: A Private Selling Exhibition, 23-26 May 2013

  • 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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Double Daisies

circa 1982
pencil on paper
63.5 x 81 cm. (25 x 31 7/8 in.)
Stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and numbered '3F 74.023 I1107' on the reverse. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £18,750

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Day Sale 11 February 2014 2pm