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ANDY WARHOL, Two works: Mineola Motorcycle and Min

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Two works: Mineola Motorcycle and Mineola Motorcycle (Negative), 1985 - 1986

Silkscreen inks and synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) each. (i) Stamped with the Estate and Foundation seals and numbered "PA10.127" on the overlap; (ii) stamped with the Estate and Foundation seals and numbered "PA10.119" on the overlap.

PROVENANCE Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills; Gagosian Gallery, New York
LITERATURE (ii) C. Stuckey, Andy Warhol Heaven and Hell Are Just One Breath Away! Late Paintings and Related Works, 1984 - 1986, New York, 1992, p. 65 (illustrated)

To counter ... self doubt, starting in the late 1970s Warhol undertook project after project, culminating in a large uncommisioned group of black-and-white paintings and drawings in his trademark "plagiarist" fashion; that is, based directly on newspaper advertisements, street leaflets, and ordinary book illustrations. These works constitute the present volume… like all of Warhol's art, these lots pictures take visual cues from the ubiquitous Western media at the service of consumerism and publicity, while also addressing more personal and ultimate concern: the power of the mind for spiritual salvation, the capacity for the body to be improved, and military geopolitics. With reconsideration of the last years of Warhol's career, when critics pressured the artist to revitalize what they considered to be a career that had lapsed after he became the victim of a newly-successful murder attempt in 1968, the rich implications of this black-and-white series newly provides material for a much needed last chapter to the Warhol story. (C. Stuckey, Heaven and Hell are Just One Breath Away, Andy Warhol, New York, 1992, p. 10)

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