Silkscreen in colors on wove paper
USA, 1975
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – American artist, graphic artist and filmmaker
Numbered, signed and dated on the reverse lower left in pencil ‘28/125 Andy Warhol 75’
Published by Luciano Anselmino, Milan
Catalog raisonné: Schellmann 132
Image dimensions: 87.8 x 70.4 cm
Very good condition
Andy Warhol was a co-founder of the US-American Pop Art and is considered its most important representative; original large format silkscreens fetch up to 231,000 euro at international auctions

The present silkscreen in colors is the fifth sheet of the portfolio ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’. It comprises a total of ten silkscreens of portraits of nameless African-American drag queens and was published in 1975 by Luciano Anselmino in Milan in an edition of 125 + 25 AP (artist’s proofs) + 1 PP (printer’s proof) published. As a basis for the portraits served Warhol Polaroid photographs he alienated by superimposing transparent, torn-looking color fields.

The silkscreen in colors is numbered, signed and dated on the reverse lower left in pencil ‘28/125 Andy Warhol 75’. The sheet is rolled. It is in very good condition. The image measures 87.8 x 70.4 cm, the sheet 110.5 x 73.5 cm.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol, founder and leading figure of the American Pop Art, was born in 1928 as a son of a Russian family in Pennsylvania. He began his career as an artist by creating advertising graphics. Already in 1956, he presented his graphic works at the Museum of Modern Art. In the early 1960s Warhol began experimenting with different techniques and started focusing on typically American objects of the consumer society, as for example Campbell’s soup cans or Coca Cola bottles. In 1962 Warhol started with his series of portraits of famous stars, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, who were then at the height of their career. His renowned studio ‘The Factory’ was a meeting point for internationally successful artists, actors and musicians. As early as the 1970s galleries started exhibiting Warhol’s work, which is now part of some of the most famous collections, such as the Modern Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the d’Art Moderne in Paris. (fea)

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