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Auction archive: Lot number 43

Andy Warhol

Estimate
US$300,000 - US$400,000
Price realised:
US$389,000
Auction archive: Lot number 43

Andy Warhol

Estimate
US$300,000 - US$400,000
Price realised:
US$389,000
Beschreibung:

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LOCKSLEY SHEA GALLERY Andy Warhol Flowers 1-8 1975 graphite on paper, in 8 parts 40 3/4 x 27 1/4 in. (103.5 x 69.2 cm.) Each signed and dated "Andy Warhol 1975" on the reverse.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner Exhibited Minneapolis, Locksley Shea Gallery, Andy Warhol New Drawings, September 17 - October 17, 1975 Stuttgart, Württembergische Kunstverein, Andy Warhol Das Zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975, February 12 - March 28, 1976; then traveled to Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kusnthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum New York, Grant-Selwyn Fine Art, April 2001 Florida, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, With You I Want to Live: The Gordon Locksley and Dr. George T. Shea Collection, March 23, 2009 - March 22, 2010 Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Extended Loan, April 2 - October 27, 2013 Literature Art Magazine, November 1975, pp. 86 – 87 (illustrated) R. Crone, Andy Warhol Das Zeichnereische Werk 1942-1975, exh. cat., Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, no. 217-224 Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, With You I Want to Live: The Gordon Locksley and Dr. George T. Shea Collection, exh. cat., Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 2009, n.p. (illustrated) Catalogue Essay Andy Warhol’s Flowers paintings have pervaded our global consciousness as the totemic standard of classic American Pop; their imagery acting as a metaphor for a generation that changed not only artistic, but also social and political, topographies in a supremely transformative decade. Flowers #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, were executed nearly a decade later in 1975 after the heady Factory days of the 1960s. For Warhol this symbol of fragile and transient beauty was a consistent subject both before and after his seminal series of paintings. Executed at a time when much of his output was commissioned society portraits, the current work is a return to a direct engagement with artmaking via this most intimate medium of drawing. Eschewing the silkscreen, Warhol similarly was revisiting his early career as a commercial artist and draftsman illustrating printed advertisements. Beginning with a fully understood realization of a flower resting inside a chalice, the drawings progressively become further and further cropped, highlighting the blossom as the central element as well as Warhol’s deft line. Replicating a zoom lens and drawing from photographs, Warhol brings the viewer to within inches of the flower just as one might lean in to smell its sweet perfume. Each panel gradually evolves from the still-life in the first panel; by the eighth panel the work has nearly lost its own sense of reality becoming a tangled abstraction. Interestingly, the Flowers paintings are similarly twisted by Warhol’s adroit cropping and rearrangement and it is clear here that the two are closely related. His play on the traditional genre of the Still Life painting can be seen as a contemporary reworking of an age-old motif, following the great art historical traditions of Dutch masters and nineteenth century painters, whilst promoting a completely modern aesthetic. Constantly reinventing and challenging himself, Warhol has clearly reexamined his earlier motif and by hand, reconstructed and reframed it as only he could, creating an art work equally indicative of the time, and himself, as any of his other masterpieces. Read More Artist Bio Andy Warhol American • 1928 - 1987 A seminal figure in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, Andy Warhol's paintings and screenprints are iconic beyond the scope of Art History, having become universal signifiers of an age. An early career in commercial illustration led to Warhol's appropriation of imagery from American popular culture and insistent concern with the superficial wonder of permanent commodification that yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Warhol's obsession with creating slick, seemingly mass-produced artworks led him towards the commercial technique of screenprinting, which allowed him to produce large edit

Auction archive: Lot number 43
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2014
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LOCKSLEY SHEA GALLERY Andy Warhol Flowers 1-8 1975 graphite on paper, in 8 parts 40 3/4 x 27 1/4 in. (103.5 x 69.2 cm.) Each signed and dated "Andy Warhol 1975" on the reverse.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner Exhibited Minneapolis, Locksley Shea Gallery, Andy Warhol New Drawings, September 17 - October 17, 1975 Stuttgart, Württembergische Kunstverein, Andy Warhol Das Zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975, February 12 - March 28, 1976; then traveled to Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kusnthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum New York, Grant-Selwyn Fine Art, April 2001 Florida, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, With You I Want to Live: The Gordon Locksley and Dr. George T. Shea Collection, March 23, 2009 - March 22, 2010 Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Extended Loan, April 2 - October 27, 2013 Literature Art Magazine, November 1975, pp. 86 – 87 (illustrated) R. Crone, Andy Warhol Das Zeichnereische Werk 1942-1975, exh. cat., Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, no. 217-224 Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, With You I Want to Live: The Gordon Locksley and Dr. George T. Shea Collection, exh. cat., Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 2009, n.p. (illustrated) Catalogue Essay Andy Warhol’s Flowers paintings have pervaded our global consciousness as the totemic standard of classic American Pop; their imagery acting as a metaphor for a generation that changed not only artistic, but also social and political, topographies in a supremely transformative decade. Flowers #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, were executed nearly a decade later in 1975 after the heady Factory days of the 1960s. For Warhol this symbol of fragile and transient beauty was a consistent subject both before and after his seminal series of paintings. Executed at a time when much of his output was commissioned society portraits, the current work is a return to a direct engagement with artmaking via this most intimate medium of drawing. Eschewing the silkscreen, Warhol similarly was revisiting his early career as a commercial artist and draftsman illustrating printed advertisements. Beginning with a fully understood realization of a flower resting inside a chalice, the drawings progressively become further and further cropped, highlighting the blossom as the central element as well as Warhol’s deft line. Replicating a zoom lens and drawing from photographs, Warhol brings the viewer to within inches of the flower just as one might lean in to smell its sweet perfume. Each panel gradually evolves from the still-life in the first panel; by the eighth panel the work has nearly lost its own sense of reality becoming a tangled abstraction. Interestingly, the Flowers paintings are similarly twisted by Warhol’s adroit cropping and rearrangement and it is clear here that the two are closely related. His play on the traditional genre of the Still Life painting can be seen as a contemporary reworking of an age-old motif, following the great art historical traditions of Dutch masters and nineteenth century painters, whilst promoting a completely modern aesthetic. Constantly reinventing and challenging himself, Warhol has clearly reexamined his earlier motif and by hand, reconstructed and reframed it as only he could, creating an art work equally indicative of the time, and himself, as any of his other masterpieces. Read More Artist Bio Andy Warhol American • 1928 - 1987 A seminal figure in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, Andy Warhol's paintings and screenprints are iconic beyond the scope of Art History, having become universal signifiers of an age. An early career in commercial illustration led to Warhol's appropriation of imagery from American popular culture and insistent concern with the superficial wonder of permanent commodification that yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Warhol's obsession with creating slick, seemingly mass-produced artworks led him towards the commercial technique of screenprinting, which allowed him to produce large edit

Auction archive: Lot number 43
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2014
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
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