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Andy Warhol – Electric Chairs

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Electric Chairs197135 3/8 x 47 7/8 in. ea.screenprint

Provenance

Julian Schnabel, purchased directly from the artist
Private Collection
Private Collection, New York

Literature

Feldman & Schellmann II.74-83

all works by Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol's portrait of Dorothy Blau highlights the close ties between them and is evidence of how each pushed the other. Blau was a close friend of Andy Warhol and a pillar of the art scene in Miami. She has the rare distinction of being a repeated subject in Warhol's work as he created portraits of her two times, three years apart. This blue canvas presents a younger Blau in her first Warhol portrait in 1983.
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<br>Warhol credited Blau as a critical component in his rise to international fame and as a pillar of 20th century art. This 1980s portrait contains all of the hallmarks of Warhol during his last decade, a period in which he found renewed creative impulses and a return to hand painting.

Portrait of Dorothy Blau-Blue

acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas

Andy Warhol's portrait of Dorothy Blau highlights the close ties between them and is evidence of how each pushed the other. Blau was a close friend of Andy Warhol and a pillar of the art scene in Miami. She has the rare distinction of being a repeated subject in Warhol's work as he created portraits of her two times, three years apart. This red canvas presents a younger Blau in her first Warhol portrait in 1983.
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<br>Warhol credited Blau as a critical component in his rise to international fame and as a pillar of 20th century art. This 1980s portrait contains all of the hallmarks of Warhol during his last decade, a period in which he found renewed creative impulses and a return to hand painting.

Portrait of Dorothy Blau-Red

acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas

ANDY WARHOL - Joseph Beuys - graphite on paper - 31 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.

31 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.

graphite on paper

ANDY WARHOL - Mao - color screen print on paper - 35 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.

35 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.

color screen print on paper

ANDY WARHOL - Flowers - screenprint in colors on woven paper - 36 x 36 in.

screenprint in colors on woven paper

ANDY WARHOL - The Shadow (from Myths) - color screenprint with diamond dust on paper - 37 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.

The Shadow (from Myths)

37 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.

color screenprint with diamond dust on paper

ANDY WARHOL - Vote McGovern - screenprint - 42 x 42 in.

Warhol began depicting the "Hammer and Sickle" in 1976 after seeing the symbol from the Soviet flag used in graffiti while visiting Italy. The icon represents the union of industrial and farm workers’ interests. To Warhol, the symbol was more Pop than politics. One of his assistants scoured books for reproductions and ultimately purchased a double-headed hammer and a sickle and arranged them in different positions to photograph. Warhol used the images for his series of silkscreens, which New York’s Castelli Gallery exhibited in 1977. His almost expressionist use of the hammer and sickle diffuses some of the Cold War tension that prevailed from the early 1940s through the 1980s.

Hammer & Sickle

image: 30 x 40 1/8 in. board: 32 1/2 x 42 1/2 in.

ANDY WARHOL - I Dream of Genie with the Light Brown Shoes - offset lithograph with watercolor - 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

I Dream of Genie with the Light Brown Shoes

9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

offset lithograph with watercolor

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