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.
1979 Offset lithograph in colours and United Nations stamp, on Rives paper, with full margins. I. 17.8 x 21.9 cm (7 x 8 5/8 in.) S. 22 x 28 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.) Signed twice in black ink and numbered 386/1000 in pencil (500 have a U.S. stamp, 500 have a Swiss stamp), published by United Nations Disaster Relief Organization, New York (with their inkstamp), unframed.
