Offering Rare Unique Painting, PoP ART, Elvis, Signed, Andy Warhol With Docs.
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:969106 | Style: Pop Art |
| Subject: Elvis | Listed By: Dealer or Reseller |
| Signed?: Signed | Medium: Mixed Media |
…………………………...Description…………………………...Rare mixedmedia painting –Double Elvis20.5 x 20.8cmSinned AndyWarhol in the lower left & versoVery good condition Offering a unique original mixed media (acrylic, ink, etc.) painting depicting a portrait of Elvis, signed Andy Warhol, inscribed Andy Warhol, in the lower left of the artwork and on verso ofthe artwork. ElvisPresley, America’s most famous rock and roll singer and sex symbol throughout...the 1950s. Elvis—whose hip-shaking moves had scandalized some, is captured inthis picture, most likely sourced from a publicity still for the Westernfilm Flaming Star (1960), this work probably belonged to along, continuous images of Elvises that was later cut into multiple paintings. Thegrowing number of portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and other movie starshad agreat deal to do with Warhol's enthusiasm for the glamour and glitter ofHollywood which led to a large series of society portraits andpictures.Warhol once said "my idea of a good picture is one that's infocus and of a famous person".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’s innovations, which have now become familiar artistic techniques, confounded traditional notions of what an artist did (Warhol outsourced much ofhis work to assistants) and what artistic subject matter could be. Usingreproductions of common, commercially available images from advertising and thecelebrity press, Warhol presented art as one commodity among many, an actfilled with equal parts indifferent boredom, ingenious marketing, andcelebration. He was lauded as a mirror of contemporary American culture, in which, he predicted, everyone would experience (or want to experience), “15minutes of fame, ” 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 of director.He cultivated a fluctuating cadre of “Superstars”—actors, artists, poets, scenesters, and assorted characters at his infamous Factory studio. Their dailylives were documented by the filmmaker Jonas Mekas, the photographer BillyName, and by Warhol himself in his films, recordings, and photographs. TheFactory was a locus for celebrities, eccentrics, and collectors and itsactivity helped launch the careers of several other artists during itstwo-decade existence. Despite this, Warhol was publicly shy and retiring, answering many questions with a quiet, monotone “um, ” “yeah, ” or “no.”Much ofWarhol’s oeuvre is well known, recognizable. His Campbell’s Soup cans andimages of flowers, portraits of Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, and ElizabethTaylor, and his Brillo boxes have become as iconic as the images from whichthey derive and seem saturated with his critical banality. Less known, perhaps, are much darker images by Warhol: horrific car crashes, erotic male nudes, collaborations with Keith Haring or Jean-Michel Basquiat, portraits of VladimirLenin, and so on. His 1973 series of silkscreened portraits of Mao Zedong, founder and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, perhaps captures muchof Warhol’s varied ideas. Made one year after President Richard Nixon andSecretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Mao and opened China to US trade, and three years prior to Mao’s death, the portrait uses as its template thepicture of the dictator then ubiquitous in China, depicting him as a benevolenttechnocrat. Despite Warhol’s fervid colors and vibrant lines, Mao is stoic andstares blankly, possibly ignorant of the millions of deaths then occurring as aresult of policies implemented during the Great Leap Forward. Although Mao wasa theorist of Communism, his iconic, celebrity-like image is revealed by Warholto be a highly marketable and consumable sign with an ambiguous, easilydisplaced cultural and monetary value. And, Warhol’s identification of Mao inthe superstar, consumerist pantheon presages the new China, with its risingmiddle class and effectively capitalist economy that has rapidly developedsince the nation was opened to foreign trade.In 1969, he founded the magazine Interviewand, in 1979, the New York Academy of Art.He survived a 1968 assassinationattempt by disgruntled Factor hanger-on and radical feminist Valerie Solanas.He barely survived the attack, which left him with persistent health problems.Scars persisted, as can be seen in a famous post-operative portrait by RichardAvedon. Sadly, after Warhol’s work and influence became more solidified, thoughtful, and rich in the 1980s, in 1987 he entered New York Hospital for aroutine gallbladder operation, but suffered an unexpected cardiac arrhythmia, which caused his death at the age of 58. His brother Paul and his brother John, who was also an artist, survived him. He remains one of the most influentialartists of the 20th and 21st centuries and 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. Packages are sentMonday to Friday (business days, excluding Holidays). We ship via First Class, Standard Post, Priority Mail. International Shipping WORLDWIDE. ………………………...Combined Shipping………………………...We gladly offer combined shipping on multipleitems. The best bet is to contact usprior to making multiple purchases for a shipping quote. Thanks for your interest and happy bidding!SAS
