Andy Warhol Queen Elizabeth suite, from Reigning Queens 1985 The complete set of four screenprints in colors, on Lenox Museum Board paper, the full sheets, all S. 39 1/4 x 31 1/2 in (99.7 x 80 cm) all signed and numbered 40/40 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by George C.P. Mulder, Amsterdam, all in very good condition, all framed.
Literature Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 334-337 Catalogue Essay Andy Warhol was the king of pop and coincidently a savior and practitioner of the traditional portrait in the later half of the twentieth century. We all know the 1960’s through Marilyn and Liz and Jackie. We also know the parties and clubs of the 1970’s via his images of Drag Queens, Mick Jagger, and Studio 54 Drink Tickets. Besides Halston, Liza and Bianca he had many many ‘very close friends’ that he knew through fashion, music, art, and of course his very own Interview magazine. By the eighties he was thinking a little less about popular culture and perhaps, prophetically immortalizing parts of our world that were slowly disappearing—his Endangered Species portfolios quickly comes to mind but this often overlooked series Reigning Queens—Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland –also a very endangered species as they were the only reigning Queens in the world at the time Warhol created the portfolio. Here we are lucky enough to offer the complete set of four prints, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom based on the Queen’s 1977 Silver Jubilee portrait (yes that was 35 years ago). This will be only the fifth time the complete set has been offered at auction since its creation in 1985. Read More 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
Andy Warhol Queen Elizabeth suite, from Reigning Queens 1985 The complete set of four screenprints in colors, on Lenox Museum Board paper, the full sheets, all S. 39 1/4 x 31 1/2 in (99.7 x 80 cm) all signed and numbered 40/40 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by George C.P. Mulder, Amsterdam, all in very good condition, all framed.
Literature Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 334-337 Catalogue Essay Andy Warhol was the king of pop and coincidently a savior and practitioner of the traditional portrait in the later half of the twentieth century. We all know the 1960’s through Marilyn and Liz and Jackie. We also know the parties and clubs of the 1970’s via his images of Drag Queens, Mick Jagger, and Studio 54 Drink Tickets. Besides Halston, Liza and Bianca he had many many ‘very close friends’ that he knew through fashion, music, art, and of course his very own Interview magazine. By the eighties he was thinking a little less about popular culture and perhaps, prophetically immortalizing parts of our world that were slowly disappearing—his Endangered Species portfolios quickly comes to mind but this often overlooked series Reigning Queens—Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland –also a very endangered species as they were the only reigning Queens in the world at the time Warhol created the portfolio. Here we are lucky enough to offer the complete set of four prints, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom based on the Queen’s 1977 Silver Jubilee portrait (yes that was 35 years ago). This will be only the fifth time the complete set has been offered at auction since its creation in 1985. Read More 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
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