Andy Warhol - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, October 14, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galeria Nasoni, Porto
    Private Collection
    Phillips, London, 18 February 2011, lot 247
    Private Collection
    Phillips, London, 10 March 2017, lot 131
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • 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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signed 'Warhol' upper right
ink and acrylic on paper
image 29 x 38.3 cm (11 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
sheet 33.1 x 42.6 cm (13 x 16 3/4 in.)

Executed in 1948.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for £47,880

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 14 October 2021