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PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE Andy Warhol Space Fruit: Still-lifes portfolio: Cantaloupes I 1979 Unique screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet, S. 30 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. (76.8 x 101.9 cm) a color variant aside from the edition of 150, with the Estate of Andy Warhol inkstamps on the reverse, numbered `EXTRA 191.121' in pencil, published by Grippi/Zivian, Inc., New York, a soft crease at lower right corner (with associated cracking in the inks), hinged to the support at the reverse of the corners (with associated minor puckering on the front), otherwise in very good condition, framed.
Literature see Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 201 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