Andy Warhol - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 22, 2020 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 23 January 2020

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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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Andy Warhol

Speed Skater, from Art and Sports portfolio

1983
Screenprint in colours, on Arches 88 paper, the full sheet.
S. 85.1 x 62.2 cm (33 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.)
Signed and numbered XXXVI/CL in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs and a deluxe edition of 50 on Arches Aquarelle paper), with the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse, published by Visconti Art Spectrum, Vienna, for the XIV Olympic Winter Games, framed.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £8,750

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 23 January 2020