Andy Warhol - Photographs London Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Ganis, Andy Warhol's Serial Photography, p. 15, variant
    J. Paul Getty Museum, Nadar/Warhol, Paris/New York: Photography and Fame, p. 195, variant
    Pace/MacGill Gallery, Andy Warhol Polaroids: 1971-1986, p. 76, variant
    Taschen, Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958-1987, p. 307, 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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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION

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Debbie Harry

1980
Unique Polaroid Polacolor Type 108 print.
Image: 9.5 x 7.2 cm (3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 10.8 x 8.6 cm (4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)

Initialled 'T.J.H.' by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation, numbered 'FA04.04883' in another hand, all in pencil, 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Authorized by The Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts' stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £19,050

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London Auction 21 November 2024