By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Bodley Gallery 1957:
A rare, 1950s gallery announcement offset illustrated by Andy Warhol on the occasion of: Andy Warhol Golden Pictures: December 2 - December 24, 1957: The Bodley Gallery 223 East 60th St., New York, NY. A scarce, historical Andy Warhol Pre-Pop illustration; highly collectible.
Medium: Double-sided offset lithograph in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, before folding.
Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (32.4 x 49.5 cm)
Good overall vintage condition. Minor signs of aging & handling. Well-preserved.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown.
Warhol Foundation annotations in pencil on one side.
Provenance:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, New York.
Literature:
Kornbluth: Pre-Pop Warhol, no. 66, pp. 164-165.
Further background:
Warhol’s career began as a commercial illustrator on New York’s Madison Avenue in 1949, during the massive post-war economic boom. His arrival additionally coincided with an extensive change in the motivations and strategies behind advertising, utilizing applied psychology to influence American consumers to purchase products. This stint as an ad man would further his Pop interest in cultural commercialization and start his artistic career; thus began the first chapter of Warhol’s oeuvre.
Several of Andy Warhol's earliest exhibitions in New York were at the Bodley during the 1950s, starting with two in 1956.
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Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions.
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1950s Pop Art Figurative Prints
MaterialsPaper, Lithograph
