John Wolf Fine Art

About Artist:

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 $105m auction record Sotheby's 2013 Andy Warhol screenprints are highly prized by art collectors all over the world

About Artwork:

Andy Warhol Screenprint in colors, signed in pencil and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso. From the portfolio published by Factory Additions, New York. Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products Inc., New York