Lot 133
Frame image
133
Andy Warhol
Goethe, 1982.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 60,000 / $ 64,800 Sold:
€ 101,600 / $ 109,728 (incl. surcharge)
Goethe. 1982.
Silkscreen in colors.
Feldmann/Schellmann/Defendi II.272. Signed and numbered. From an edition of 100 copies. On Lenox museum cardboard. 96.4 x 96.4 cm (37.9 x 37.9 in).
Printed bv Rupert Jasen Smith, New York (with the blindstamp). Published by the editions Schellmann & Klüser, Munich/New York, in cooperation with Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (with the copyright stamp on the reverse). [AR].
• The great German poet as an icon of pop art.
• Tischbein's painting from 1787 served Andy Warhol as model.
• Turning familiar things into something new was one of the greatest accomplishments of the American artist.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
"Warhol's best works owe their power to his ability to focus on a seemingly banal image or a cliché (.) and to infuse that image with new vigour, so that it is both familiar and 'new' and nobody can tell whether the artist has an admiring, contemptuous or ironic attitude."
Mark Francis, Der späte Warhol, in: Mark Francis (ed.), Andy Warhol. The late work, 2004, S. 9.
Silkscreen in colors.
Feldmann/Schellmann/Defendi II.272. Signed and numbered. From an edition of 100 copies. On Lenox museum cardboard. 96.4 x 96.4 cm (37.9 x 37.9 in).
Printed bv Rupert Jasen Smith, New York (with the blindstamp). Published by the editions Schellmann & Klüser, Munich/New York, in cooperation with Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (with the copyright stamp on the reverse). [AR].
• The great German poet as an icon of pop art.
• Tischbein's painting from 1787 served Andy Warhol as model.
• Turning familiar things into something new was one of the greatest accomplishments of the American artist.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
"Warhol's best works owe their power to his ability to focus on a seemingly banal image or a cliché (.) and to infuse that image with new vigour, so that it is both familiar and 'new' and nobody can tell whether the artist has an admiring, contemptuous or ironic attitude."
Mark Francis, Der späte Warhol, in: Mark Francis (ed.), Andy Warhol. The late work, 2004, S. 9.
133
Andy Warhol
Goethe, 1982.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 60,000 / $ 64,800 Sold:
€ 101,600 / $ 109,728 (incl. surcharge)
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