ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

$475,000

 
<div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div> <div><font color=black>Andy Warhol’s “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> from 1983, a vibrant 40 by 40 inch canvas, captures the Japanese composer and electronic-music pioneer in the artist’s signature Pop-Art idiom, transforming a celebrity photograph into a study of color, repetition, and glamour. </font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>The composition highlights Sakamoto’s stylized face, rendered with precise silkscreen outlines. His dark, textured hair is set against a peach panel, intersected by a white triangular section. Warhol enhanced the silkscreen process with hand-drawn touches that heighten Sakamoto’s facial features. Blending mechanical and manual techniques gives the portrait both the polish of a silkscreen print and the tactility of a painting.</font></div><br><br><div><font color=black>By the 1980s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated worldwide as co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his pioneering solo work in electronic, orchestral, and film-score composition. By choosing one of the few non-Western, male subjects in Warhol’s roster, he acknowledged Sakamoto’s global influence and beauty, making this portrait especially rare in the artist’s oeuvre. Part of a broader series of celebrity portraits alongside icons like Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Prince, “<em>Ryuichi Sakamoto”</em> exemplifies Warhol’s fascination with fame as commodity, screen-printing public personas to interrogate the intersection of art, commerce, and media.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>A lithographic version of this painting is held by the Tate London and the National Galleries of Scotland, affirming its cultural significance.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font color=black>This work stands as both a vibrant homage to one of music’s most innovative figures and a testament to Warhol’s enduring exploration of image-making. Its bold palette and iconic subject continue to resonate in contemporary collections seeking a nexus of music history, Pop-Art heritage, and cross-cultural dialogue.</font></div>
Ryuichi Sakamoto198339 3/4 x 39 3/4 x 1 1/2 Zoll.(100,97 x 100,97 x 3,81 cm) Acryl und Siebdruck auf Leinwand
Provenienz
Kyowa Hakko Kirin Unternehmen, Japan
Privatsammlung
Mallet International, Tokio, 13. Juli 2017, Los 230
Privatsammlung, erworben von der oben genannten Person
Sotheby's New York: Donnerstag, 28. September 2023, Los 245
Privatsammlung, erworben von der oben genannten Person
Andy Warhols „Ryuichi Sakamoto“ aus dem Jahr 1983, eine lebendige Leinwand im Format 40 x 40 Zoll, fängt den japanischen Komponisten und Pionier der elektronischen Musik in der für den Künstler typischen Pop-Art-Sprache ein und verwandelt ein Prominentenfoto in eine Studie über Farbe, Wiederholung und Glamour.


 


Die Komposition hebt Sakamotos stilisiertes Gesicht hervor, das mit präzisen Siebdruckkonturen wiedergegeben ist. Sein dunkles, strukturiertes Haar steht im Kontrast zu einem pfirsichfarbenen Hintergrund, der von einem weißen dreieckigen Abschnitt durchschnitten wird. Warhol verfeinerte den Siebdruckprozess mit handgezeichneten Akzenten, die Sakamotos Gesichtszüge hervorheben. Durch die Kombination mechanischer und manueller Techniken erhält das Porträt sowohl die Glätte eines Siebdrucks als auch die Haptik eines Gemäldes.


In den 1980er Jahren war Ryuichi Sakamoto weltweit als Mitbegründer des Yellow Magic Orchestra und für seine bahnbrechenden Soloarbeiten in den Bereichen Elektronik, Orchestermusik und Filmmusik bekannt. Mit der Wahl eines der wenigen nicht-westlichen männlichen Motive in Warhols Portfolio würdigte er Sakamotos globalen Einfluss und seine Schönheit, was dieses Porträt zu einem besonderen Rarität in Warhols Œuvre macht. Als Teil einer umfassenderen Serie von Prominentenporträts neben Ikonen wie Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry und Prince veranschaulicht „Ryuichi Sakamoto“ Warhols Faszination für Ruhm als Ware, indem er öffentliche Persönlichkeiten im Siebdruckverfahren abbildet, um die Schnittstelle zwischen Kunst, Kommerz und Medien zu hinterfragen.





Eine lithografische Version dieses Gemäldes befindet sich im Besitz der Tate London und der National Galleries of Scotland, was seine kulturelle Bedeutung unterstreicht.


 


Dieses Werk ist sowohl eine lebendige Hommage an eine der innovativsten Persönlichkeiten der Musikszene als auch ein Zeugnis von Warhols unermüdlicher Erforschung der Bildgestaltung. Seine kühne Farbpalette und sein ikonisches Motiv finden weiterhin Anklang in zeitgenössischen Sammlungen, die eine Verbindung zwischen Musikgeschichte, Pop-Art-Erbe und interkulturellem Dialog suchen.
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