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Andy Warhol Greco-Roman Figures 1986 Six gelatin silver prints stitched with thread. 31 3/4 x 27 1/4 in. (80.6 x 69.2 cm) overall. Signed and dated "Andy Wahol 86" on the reverse. This work is unique.
Provenance Cheim & Read, New York Exhibited New York, Cheim & Reid, Andy Warhol Edward Ruscha & Robert Mapplethorpe Three Catholics, April 29 - June 27, 1998; New York, The International Center for Photography, Andy Warhol Photography, January 11 - March 18, 2001 Literature H. Cotter, "A Tour Through Chelsea, the New Center of Gravity," The New York Times, May 15, 1998; W. V. Ganis, Andy Warhol's Serial Photography, London, 2004 Artist Bio Andy Warhol American • 1928 - 1987 A seminal figure in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, Andy Warhol's paintings and screenprints are iconic beyond the scope of Art History, having become universal signifiers of an age. An early career in commercial illustration led to Warhol's appropriation of imagery from American popular culture and insistent concern with the superficial wonder of permanent commodification that yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Warhol's obsession with creating slick, seemingly mass-produced artworks led him towards the commercial technique of screenprinting, which allowed him to produce large editions of his painted subjects. The clean, mechanical surface and perfect registration of the screenprinting process afforded Warhol a revolutionary absence of authorship that was crucial to the Pop Art manifesto. View More Works