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.
Paloma Picasso, from Hommage à Picasso (F. & S. 121)
1975 Screenprint in colours, on Arches paper, printed to the sheet edges (one trimmed). S. 103.9 x 69.1 cm (40 7/8 x 27 1/4 in.) Signed, dated and numbered 12/90 in pencil on the reverse (there was also an edition of 30 in Roman numerals and 15 artist's proofs), co-published by Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin and Panthéon Presse, Rome, framed.
