$110 Million Basquiat Unseats Warhol as America’s Most Expensive Artist at Sotheby’s Sale
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Each image: 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (7 7/8 x 10 in.) or the reverse.
Signature: Each with blindstamp credit in the margin. Initialled ‘T.J.H.’ by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation in pencil, estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and date stamps on the verso. Each accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed in ink by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
(vii): Woodstock, Blenheim Palace, Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, 1 October 2014 – 26 April 2015
Nicholas Chambers, Michael Frahm and Tony Godfrey, eds., Warhol in China, Germany, 2014, (i) pp. 120, 301; (ii) pp. 136-137, 301; (iii) pp. 212-213, 304; (iv) pp. 132, 301; (v) pp. 167, 302; (vi) pp. 260-261, 305; (vii) pp. 103, 300; (viii) pp. 166, 302 (illustrated)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
About Andy Warhol
Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that “art is what you can get away with” and “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.
American, 1928-1987, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, based in New York, New York
Exhibition Highlights
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Williamstown,
2013
Greenwich,
Solo Shows
2017
Culver City,
2016
2015
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Williamstown,
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Greenwich,
2011
Rome,
Group Shows
2016
New York,
Art Basel Miami Beach
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