Andy Warhol - Photographs London Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Andy Warhol Foundation, New York

  • Literature

    Andy Warhol, Polaroids: Celebrities and Self-Portraits, exh. cat., Starmach Gallery, Krakow, 2000, pl. 65 (variant)

  • 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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Keith Haring and Juan Dubose

1983
Colour Polaroid print.
9.5 × 7.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in)
'Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Andy Warhol Foundation' credit stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £6,250

Photographs

17 May 2012
London