ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

 
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 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 in.(100,97 x 100,97 x 3,81 cm) acrylique et sérigraphie sur toile
Provenance
Kyowa Hakko Kirin Company, Japon
Collection privée
Mallet International, Tokyo, 13 juillet 2017, lot 230
Collection privée, acquise auprès de la personne susmentionnée
Sotheby's New York : Jeudi 28 septembre 2023, lot 245
Collection privée, acquise auprès de la personne mentionnée ci-dessus
Prix575,000
L'œuvre d'Andy Warhol "Ryuichi Sakamoto" de 1983, une toile vibrante de 40 x 40 pouces, capture le compositeur japonais et pionnier de la musique électronique dans l'idiome Pop-Art caractéristique de l'artiste, transformant une photographie de célébrité en une étude de la couleur, de la répétition et du glamour.


La composition met en valeur le visage stylisé de Sakamoto, rendu par des contours précis en sérigraphie. Ses cheveux sombres et texturés sont placés sur un panneau pêche, entrecoupé d'une section triangulaire blanche. Warhol a enrichi le processus de sérigraphie de touches dessinées à la main qui rehaussent les traits du visage de Sakamoto. Le mélange de techniques mécaniques et manuelles confère au portrait à la fois le poli d'une sérigraphie et la tactilité d'une peinture.


Dans les années 1980, Ryuichi Sakamoto était célèbre dans le monde entier en tant que cofondateur du Yellow Magic Orchestra et pour son travail de pionnier en solo dans le domaine de la composition électronique, orchestrale et de musique de film. En choisissant l'un des rares sujets masculins non occidentaux de son répertoire, Warhol a reconnu l'influence mondiale et la beauté de Sakamoto, ce qui rend ce portrait particulièrement rare dans l'œuvre de l'artiste. Faisant partie d'une série plus large de portraits de célébrités aux côtés d'icônes comme Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry et Prince, "Ryuichi Sakamoto" illustre la fascination de Warhol pour la célébrité en tant que marchandise, en sérigraphiant des personnalités publiques pour interroger l'intersection de l'art, du commerce et des médias.


Une version lithographique de cette peinture est conservée à la Tate de Londres et aux National Galleries of Scotland, affirmant ainsi son importance culturelle.


Cette œuvre est à la fois un vibrant hommage à l'une des figures les plus innovantes de la musique et un témoignage de l'exploration durable de la création d'images par Warhol. Sa palette audacieuse et son sujet emblématique continuent de résonner dans les collections contemporaines à la recherche d'un lien entre l'histoire de la musique, l'héritage du Pop-Art et le dialogue interculturel.
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