Private Collection, New York Collection of Rosini Gutman, Riccione Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Exhibitions Halls of the Government of Andorra, Andy Warhol - Andorra, March - May 2006, p. 75 (illustrated) Palma de Mallorca, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Andy Warhol, 1 December 2006 - 14 January 2007
Literature
Gianni Salvaterra, Andy Warhol's Timeboxes, Milan, 2009, n.p. (illustrated)
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.
stamped by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board Inc. and numbered 'A186b.046' on the reverse silkscreen on 2 sheets of paper laid down on card, laid down on canvas sheets 168 x 117.5 cm (66 1/8 x 46 1/4 in.) canvas 174.4 x 128 cm (68 5/8 x 50 3/8 in.) Executed in 1978.