ANDY WARHOL - Silk - Screen Signed On Paper Of 80 ' S - BIG 1$ DOLLAR BILL
Item History & Price
Andy WarholSIZE26 x 18.9 inch ( 66 x 48 cm )DESCRIPTIONAndy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Attributed: "ONE Dollar Bill", silkscreen on paper, signed lower, stamp numbered on reverse 46/250.
“Warhol’s first silkscreen paintings, made in early 1962, were based on the front and back faces of one- and two-dollar bills. Two anecdotal versions of the subject’s origins have appeared in the Warhol literature. Both tend to mythologize the origins of these ...paintings and involve transactions that mirror the subject.“One account details the suggestion to an art and antiques dealer Muriel Latow and was first cited in Calvin Tomkins’s 1970 essay “Raggedy Andy”. A similar version was told by Warhol’s friend Ted Carey. According to Carey, Warhol was looking for ideas about what to paint, and Latow charged him fifty dollars for the idea: “Muriel said, ‘What do you like more than anything else in the world?’ So Andy said, “I don’t know. What?’ So she said, ‘Money. The thing that means more to you and that you like more than anything else in the world is money. You should paint pictures of money.’ And so Andy said, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful.’”“A different account credits the idea of painting money to Eleanor Ward. According to Ward and Emile De Antonio, Ward had promised Warhol a one-person exhibition at Stable Gallery if he would paint her a lucky two-dollar bill.“Nathan Gluck recalled that Warhol “had decided to paint money. And he was not about to draw rows and rows of money. And he couldn’t think of what to do, and then he remembered the fellows at Tibor Press. He called them up and asked them if they would make a silkscreen of money. And I think they said no, but if Andy made a drawing, they would make a silkscreen of the drawing. So, Andy ran off and made is serially like that. From then on, I think he realized that he could use the silkscreen.”CONDITIONGood aged condition.
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