Andy Warhol
FLOWERS (HAND-COLORED)
1974
screenprint with hand-color ed.250
103.5×69.2cm
Frame:113.3×79cm
This work was originally hand-colored, but most of the color has now faded. The tape applied over the handwritten signature on the back, as well as other details, suggest that the previous framing was rather careless. Having transitioned from the advertising industry—whose purpose is to “communicate to the masses”—to life as an artist, Warhol’s works were initially conceived as art that the public could easily own. While the condition of this piece cannot be described as good, it is precisely this that imparts a palpable sense of history.
FELDMAN & SCHELLMANN 1I.119,
Signed, signed on the reverse, ed., dated, copyright stamp
Light discoloration across the entire surface, several stains, slight waviness, fading
Framed (new)
Delivery of this piece within Japan will take approximately 1 week to 10 days.
ABOUT Andy Warhol
Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.
BIOGRAPHY
1928 Born in Pittsburgh, the son of Slovak immigrants.
1949 He graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with a degree in Advertising Arts.
1950 He has worked on advertisements and illustrations for magazines such as "Vogue".
1961 He paints works featuring Campbell Soup cans and dollar bills.
1962 Began mass-producing works using silkscreen prints.
1964 He has a studio called Factory in New York.
1968 Sniped with a gun.
1970 Named by Life magazine as one of the "Most Influential People of the 1960s" along with the Beatles.
1974 First visit to Japan.
1983 Appeared in a commercial for TDK cassette tapes.
1987 Died in NY at age 58.
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