Andy Warhol - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016

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  • 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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Andy Warhol

Marilyn

1967
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, the full sheet,
S. 91.2 x 91.1 cm (35 7/8 x 35 7/8 in.)
signed in pencil and stamp-numbered 151/250 on the reverse (there were also 26 artist's proofs lettered A-Z), published by Factory Additions, New York, framed, uneven paper discolouration at edges of sheet and two circles of darker discolouration in the lower right corner, the sheet adhered to the mount with double-sided tape at intervals along the upper left and right edges.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for £60,000

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016