Andy Warhol's Athletes: rare vintage gallery announcement
Original 1978 fold-out announcement to advertise Andy Warhol's Athletes at Coe Kerr Gallery, NY: December 9, 1977 - January, 1978. Opens according style to 27 inches wide to reveal 6 Warhol images: Muhammad Ali, Pele, Chris Evert, Tom Seaver, Willie Shoemaker, Rod Gilbert.

Off-set print in colors (double-sided)

4.5 x 27 inches open (4.5 x4.5 inches closed)

Minor signs of handling; otherwise good condition (no rips, tears etc.)

Rare

Further Background
"Andy Warhol's The Complete Athletes Series was a significant series which continues the artist's lifelong fascination with celebrity. Commissioned by the collector Richard Weisman in 1977, the work consisted of ten 40 x 40 inch, multi-colored portraits of the most celebrated sport stars of the day. A departure from his usual panoply of movie stars and music celebrities, this series embraces the changing nature of fame in the twentieth century as athletes and sports stars moved up to take center stage in American popular culture. With his usual insightful prophecy, Warhol recognized the growing commercialization of sport and the corresponding increasing influence of the sports stars themselves, and committed these new idols to canvas, as Warhol himself noted, "the sports stars of today are the movie starts of yesterday." (source: Christie's)

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