Offering Rare Unique PoP ART Painting, Polo Player, Signed, Andy Warhol With
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:1057612 | Style: Pop Art |
| Subject: Polo Player | Listed By: Dealer or Reseller |
| Signed?: Signed | Medium: Mixed Media |
Offering Rare Unique painting, PoP ART, Polo player, signed, Andy Warhol with COA.…………………………...Description…………………………...Rare mixedmedia painting –Polo player26.7 x 18.8cmSinned AndyWarhol in the lower left & versoVery good condition Offering a unique original mixed media, painting, signed Andy Warhol, inscribed Andy Warhol, in the lowerleft of the artwork and on verso of the artwork. The artwork depicts an Pop Artimage of– a po...lo player. Warhol subsequently produced a whole serieson the theme of sport. The snapshots of horse and rider associate the allure ofthis elite sport with some of the qualities attributed to it - masculinity, glamour and status. Bold, vibrant and dynamic, this artwork will be a beautifuland contemporary addition to any home.The artwork comes with a registration certificate atNational Fine Arts Title Registry, with a transfer of registry certificate tothe new owner, transfer of ownership and a COA which came with the artwork whenacquired. The artwork is offered and described in the documentation as inmanner of the artist. The condition of the artwork is very good, as pictured, common aging of the paper can be noticed. The artwork is also stamped onreverse from the previous collection, and has a reference number marked onverso. ………………………….Andy Warhol ………………………...Quite possibly the most influential artistsince Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol revolutionized modern art, radically alteringthe relationship of art to notions of authorship and commodity, and blurringthe boundaries between perfomance, photography, painting, and sculpture. Warhol’sinnovations, which have now become familiar artistic techniques, confoundedtraditional notions of what an artist did (Warhol outsourced much of his workto assistants) and what artistic subject matter could be. Using reproductionsof common, commercially available images from advertising and the celebritypress, Warhol presented art as one commodity among many, an act filled withequal parts indifferent boredom, ingenious marketing, and celebration. Hewas lauded as a mirror of contemporary American culture, in which, hepredicted, everyone would experience (or want to experience), “15 minutes offame, ” to use a phrase he coined.The fourth son of working-class Slovakimmigrants, Warhol (born Andrew Warhola) grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He attended the Carnegie Technical Institute and, in 1949, moved to New York topursue work as a commercial artist.Beginning in the 1950s, Warhol began toexperiment with presenting mass-produced advertising images as artwork. Anearly painting depicted a bottle of Coca-Cola, rendered in a painterly, expressionistic manner. A second painting of the same image, made with thestrait-laced, hard edge exuberance of graphic art, convinced Warhol thatearnest reproductions, with a minimum of artistic intervention, could producefascinating images. Ivan Karp, a curator for Leo Castelli, agreed with Warholafter seeing his two Coke paintings. Karp introduced Warhol to otherlike-minded artists, including Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. He wassoon showing his work regularly at galleries in New York and Los Angeles andquickly became an enigmatic doyen of the New York scene. (Some critics andartists, especially the abstract expressionists, took great umbrage withWarhol’s work, seeing it as antithetical to their ideals and as encouraging ofconsumerism.)In the 1960s Warhol mostly abandoned hands-on artistic labor, leaving the work to assistants and friends while he acted as a kind ofdirector. He cultivated a fluctuating cadre of “Superstars”—actors, artists, poets, scenesters, and assorted characters at his infamous Factory studio.Their daily lives were documented by the filmmaker Jonas Mekas, thephotographer Billy Name, and by Warhol himself in his films, recordings, andphotographs. The Factory was a locus for celebrities, eccentrics, andcollectors and its activity helped launch the careers of several other artistsduring its two-decade existence. Despite this, Warhol was publicly shy andretiring, answering many questions with a quiet, monotone “um, ” “yeah, ” or“no.”Much of Warhol’s oeuvre is well known, recognizable. His Campbell’s Soupcans and images of flowers, portraits of Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, andElizabeth Taylor, and his Brillo boxes have become as iconic as the images fromwhich they derive and seem saturated with his critical banality. Less known, perhaps, are much darker images by Warhol: horrific car crashes, erotic malenudes, collaborations with Keith Haring or Jean-Michel Basquiat, portraits ofVladimir Lenin, and so on. His 1973 series of silkscreened portraits of MaoZedong, founder and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, perhapscaptures much of Warhol’s varied ideas. Made one year after President RichardNixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Mao and opened China to UStrade, and three years prior to Mao’s death, the portrait uses as its templatethe picture of the dictator then ubiquitous in China, depicting him as abenevolent technocrat. Despite Warhol’s fervid colors and vibrant lines, Mao isstoic and stares blankly, possibly ignorant of the millions of deaths thenoccurring as a result of policies implemented during the Great Leap Forward.Although Mao was a theorist of Communism, his iconic, celebrity-like image isrevealed by Warhol to be a highly marketable and consumable sign with anambiguous, easily displaced cultural and monetary value. And, Warhol’sidentification of Mao in the superstar, consumerist pantheon presages the newChina, with its rising middle class and effectively capitalist economy that hasrapidly developed since the nation was opened to foreign trade.In 1969, hefounded the magazine Interview and, in 1979, the New York Academy ofArt.He survived a 1968 assassination attempt by disgruntled Factor hanger-onand radical feminist Valerie Solanas. He barely survived the attack, which lefthim with persistent health problems. Scars persisted, as can be seen in afamous post-operative portrait by Richard Avedon. Sadly, after Warhol’s workand influence became more solidified, thoughtful, and rich in the 1980s, in1987 he entered New York Hospital for a routine gallbladder operation, butsuffered an unexpected cardiac arrhythmia, which caused his death at the age of58. His brother Paul and his brother John, who was also an artist, survived him.He remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuriesand likely will for a very long time.….Great addition to your art collection…. ……………………………...Payment…………..………….……...We accept Paypal and all major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express & Discover) via Paypal for payment. Payment must be made within 5 businessdays. …………………………....Shipping…….……………………...Your purchaseis carefully wrapped, packaged and shipped with tracking informationwithin 1 business day of receipt of payment. 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