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Pop Art After Andy Warhol 16 lithographs on blue paper, 11 a…
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432
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Pop Art After Andy Warhol 16 lithographs on blue paper, 11 a…
See original version (German)
Estimate €400 - €600
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Description
Pop Art
After Andy Warhol
16 lithographs on blue paper, 11 and 9 (colour) lithographs respectively on smooth vellum, and 7 lithographs on gold paper, based on original drawings by Andy Warhol. In: Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol. A Picture Show by the Artist. The Drawings 1942–1975. Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1976. Excellent prints, some with vibrant colours.
The vellum lithographs in the Stuttgart catalogue mark the transition from Warhol’s hand-coloured drawings of the early 1950s – *Love is a Pink Cake*, *In the Bottom of My Garden* – to the serialised, edition-based logic of the exhibition circuit, with the industrial paper itself bearing witness to this shift. The colour lithographs on gold paper, by contrast, directly reference *A Gold Book* (1957), Warhol’s most intimate self-published work, whose shimmering surface transformed drawings of angels, boys and flowers into sacred-decorative objects. Gold runs through Warhol’s entire oeuvre as a continuum – from the gold-foil-adorned I. Miller shoe advertisements to the gilded Factory celebrities – and consistently functions as ambiguity made material: luxury and erotic camouflage; decorativeness as a strategy of homosexual desire aesthetics that is both veiling and affirming. Crone thus transforms the catalogue’s gold paper into an art-historical argument: it is not merely a decorative element of book design, but the condensed signature of a process of self-mythologisation that was laid down in Warhol’s early work and driven to industrial perfection in his later work.
16 lithographs on blue paper, 11 and 9 (colour) lithographs on smooth vellum and 7 lithographs on gold paper after original drawings by Andy Warhol. Excellent, partly colourful prints. Gold-coloured illustrated wrappers (somewhat rubbed and slightly stained; front joint slightly torn). – Contents well preserved.
*This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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