ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

ANDY WARHOL Andy Warhol — who famously said that, “In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes” — was known for his portraits of influential and powerful celebrities, business people, and socialites. He was obsessed with wealth and fame. Warhol was a commercial illustrator before he found fame. For him, success in business was also art. He was a visionary who predicted a consumer society. As he assembled a motley cast of studio assistants and “Superstar” actors at his Factory studio in New York, Warhol himself became a pop culture icon — and eventually one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Warhol began making silkscreen paintings in 1962, because the process was faster and felt more like an assembly line than the traditional approach. He removed himself as much as he could from the process, leaving “the production” of his ideas to others who could reproduce images many times, with only slight differences. To create these works, Warhol would select photographs from newspapers and magazines, send them to a printer to be enlarged on silk screens, and then direct Factory assistants to lay the screens over canvases and apply one or two colors with a squeegee. Color was significant in his portraits, and his style became as identifiable as the personalities in the pictures. Warhol’s commentary on consumer and celebrity culture made him a controversial figure — both celebrated and panned by critics, collectors, curators and, eventually, the general public. Today, Warhol’s paintings are mostly held by institutions, which continually feature him in solo and group exhibitions, as well as in installations of their permanent collections. The ongoing fascination with his work and legacy contributes to his high market value and reinforces the icon status he had always hoped to gain.

ARTWORK

ANDY WARHOL
Superman (II.260)
screenprint
38 x 38 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Mickey (II.265)
screenprint with diamond dust
38 x 38 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Diamond Dust Shoes (Black and White)
screenprint with diamond dust
40 x 59 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Goethe
silkscreen in colors
38 x 38 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Goethe
silkscreen in colors
38 x 38 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait in Fright Wig
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. ea.
ANDY WARHOL
Ford car
graphite on paper
11 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Campbell's Soup I: Vegetable Soup
screenprint on paper
40 x 28 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Pepper Pot from Campbell's Soup
screenprint in colors
35 x 23 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self Portrait
gelatin silver print
7 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Farrah Fawcett
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. ea.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait in Fright Wig
Polaroid
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait
Polaroid
4 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Warhol Self-Portrait (Fright Wig)
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait with Camera (diptych)
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. ea.
ANDY WARHOL
Untitled (Flowers)
ink and watercolor on paper
15 1/4 x 12 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait with Skull
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait
Polaroid, Polacolor II
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
David Hockney and Andy Warhol
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self-Portrait in Drag
Polaroid
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Northwest Coast Mask
screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
38 x 38 in.
ANDY WARHOL
The Shadow (from Myths)
color screenprint with diamond dust on paper
37 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Lee Radziwill
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. ea.
ANDY WARHOL
Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato)
screenprint in colors on colored t-shirt
29 x 26 1/2 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Electric Chair
screenprint in colors on woven paper
35 3/8 x 47 3/4 in.
ANDY WARHOL
Self Portrait at 'Flowers' Exhibition
Polaroid, Polacolor
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.
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