Andy Warhol - Selected works 1954 - 1986

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Fascinated by consumer culture, the media, and fame, Andy Warhol himself became one of the most famous and important
artists of the twentieth century.
The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Andrew Warhola grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, studying art at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949. Soon after graduating he moved to New York City, where he
abbreviated his name to Andy Warhol and began working as a commercial designer and window display artist, winning
several awards for his distinctive advertising designs. At the same time, he was developing his own style of painting, which
was inspired by mass culture, a subject that riveted the artist and dominated his entire oeuvre. By the early 1960s, Warhol's
paintings of dollar bills, soup cans, and movie stars established his status as the founder of pop art. Repetition was a key to
Warhol's work, as evidenced by his many recurrent series which included flowers, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, and Chairman Mao, among others. Warhol deliberately infused his work with a mechanical and impersonal
character that intensified when he adopted silkscreen printing techniques in order to increase his production. To accelerate
this process even further, he employed a large group of assistants in his studio, dubbed "The Factory." This practice
brilliantly reflected the commercial, industrial economy of the mechanical reproduction age.
Warhol was also a popular and influential figure in the underground film movement; his documentary approach often
focused on banal and repetitive subject matter. In the 1970s he shifted his attention back to painting portraits of famous
people, mainly working on commission. Warhol's bland persona, platinum wig, and public statements such as, "In the
future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes," epitomized the underground culture of the 1960s and 1970s. In
1975 he published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. During the 1980s Warhol often collaborated with younger artists,
including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente. His flamboyant career was suddenly cut short in 1987 when he
died of complications after gall bladder surgery.

Andy Warhol | Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother | 1954
Complete bound book of 20 hand pulled lithographs on paper | from an unknown edition | 15 x 23 cm
Under £10,000

Andy Warhol | A Whole Stocking of Good Wishes | 1955
Offset lithograph on paper | Authenticated by The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts (stamp on verso)
From The Estate of Andy Warhol | 43 x 56 cm
Under £18,000

Andy Warhol | Tattooed Woman Holding a Rose | 1955
Offset lithograph on paper | Authenticated by The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts (stamp on verso)
From The Estate of Andy Warhol | 28 x 74 cm
Under £30,000

Andy Warhol | In The Bottom Of My Garden (F&S 86A.105A) | 1956
Complete bound book of 20 hand pulled lithographs on paper, some hand coloured | from an unknown edition | 28 x 22 cm
Under £70,000

Andy Warhol | Oyster Stew (F&S II.60) | 1969
Screenprint on paper | signed edition of 250 | 28 x 22 cm
Under £70,000

Andy Warhol | Sunset (Hotel Marquette - Signed Unique) green and red (F&S II.85-88) | 1972
Screenprint on paper | Signed unique from edition of 470 | 86 x 86 cm
Under £155,000

Andy Warhol | MAO (F&S II.98) | 1972
Screen print on Beckett High White paper | Signed edition of 250 from the Mao portfolio | 91 x 91 cm
Under £80,000

Andy Warhol | Mick Jagger (F&S II.139) | 1975
Screenprint on paper | Edition of 250 (Signed by Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger) | 74 x 111 cm
Under £140,000

Andy Warhol | After the Party (AGFA) | 1979
Screen-print on Agfa vinyl | Estate Stamped Unique on 3 pieces of Vinyl | 85 x 60 cm
Under £70,000

Andy Warhol | After the Party (F&S II.183) | 1979
Screen-print on paper | rare signed copy edition of 1000 | 78 x 55 cm
Under £60,000

Andy Warhol | Mildred Scheel - Unique Artist Proof (Double) F&S II.239 | 1980
Screen-print with Diamond Dust on Arches 88 paper | Signed unique Artist Proof | 81 x 102 cm
Under £30,000

Andy Warhol | Edward Kennedy - Unique Trial proof 11/15 (F&S II.240) | 1980
Screen-print with Diamond Dust on Lenox Museum Board | Signed unique trial proof | 81 x 102 cm
Under £25,000

Andy Warhol | Edward Kennedy – Unique Trial Proof 9/15 (F&S. IIB.240) | 1980
Screen-print with Diamond Dust on Lenox Museum Board | Signed unique trial proof | 81 x 102 cm
Under £30,000

Andy Warhol | Edward Kennedy - Unique Trial Proof 12/15 (F&S IIB.240) | 1980
Screen-print with Diamond Dust on Lenox Museum Board | Estate Stamped unique trial proof | 81 x 102 cm
Under £27,000

Andy Warhol | Howdy Doody (F&S II.263) | 1981
Screen-print with Diamond Dust on Lennox Museum Board | Signed edition of 200 from the Icons portfolio | 97 x 97 cm
Under £70,000

Andy Warhol | Jane Fonda (F&S II.286) | 1982
Screen-print on paper | Signed edition of 100 - rare - also signed on verso by Jane Fonda | 80 x 100 cm
Under £70,000

Andy Warhol | Dollar (F&S II. 277) Unique colourway | 1982
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board | Signed unique from edition of 60 | 40 x 50 cm
Under £110,000

Andy Warhol | Dollar (F&S II. 276) Unique colourway | 1982
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board | Signed unique from edition of 60 | 40 x 50 cm
Under £110,000

Andy Warhol | Dollar (F&S II. 274) Unique colourway | 1982
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board | Signed unique from edition of 60 | 40 x 50 cm
Under £110,000

Andy Warhol | $ (Dollar original on canvas) | 1981
Synthetic polymer paint & silkscreen ink on canvas | Estate stamped on verso | 40 x 50 cm
Under £750,000

Andy Warhol | Love – Unique Trial Proof (F&S II.310) | 1983
Screen print on Rives BFK paper | Estate Stamped Unique from the Love portfolio | 50 x 66 cm
Under £50,000

Andy Warhol | Love (F&S II.311) | 1983
Screen print on Rives BFK paper | Signed edition of 100 from the Love portfolio | 50 x 66 cm
Under £48,000

Andy Warhol | Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482 (F&S II.317) | 1984
Screenprint on paper | Signed edition of 70 | 112 x 81 cm
Under £150,000

Andy Warhol | Queen Ntombi Twala Of Swaziland (F&S II. 348) | 1985
Screen print on Lenox Museum Board | Signed edition of 40 from Reigning Queens Portfolio | 80 x 100 cm
Under £28,000

Andy Warhol | Blackglama (F&S. II.351) | 1985
Screen-print on Lennox Museum Board | Signed edition of 190 from the Ads portfolio | 97 x 97 cm
Under £60,000

Andy Warhol | Turtle (F&S II.360A) | 1985
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board | Signed edition of 250 | 100 x 80 cm
Under £105,000

Andy Warhol | Letter To The World - The Kick – Unique Trial proof (F&S II.389) | 1986
Screen print on Lennox Museum Board | Estate Stamped Unique from the Martha Graham portfolio | 50 x 66 cm
Under £70,000

Andy Warhol | Sitting Bull (F&S IIIA.70) | 1986
Screen print on Lenox Museum Board | Estate Stamped from an unknown edition | 91 x 91 cm
Under £115,000

Andy Warhol in his studio
working on a screen