Andy Warhol, Flowers, Silk Screen Print on Paper, Not Numbered or Signed (This was common for this piece)
(PS. There is No signature on the Mona Lisa either)
Silk Screen Print - This is NOT a Poster
Removed from Screw assembled frame for further investigation, personal assessment and photos
26.75"x26.75"
$100 Handling Charge covers professional packing and insurance
Arrangements can be made at the buyers expense to see the piece in-person on Long Island New York prior to purchase
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Andy Warhol: Flowers
https://www.artsy.net/collection/andy-warhol-flowers
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Instead of observing flowers in nature, Andy Warhol found his botanical inspiration in a 1964 issue of Modern Photography. He transformed a photograph of hibiscus blossoms into a technicolor series of silkscreens, each simply titled Flowers and debuted at the influential Leo Castelli Gallery later that same year. Silkscreens from that exhibition have since sold for over $2 million at auction. While they evoke the Flower Power movement of the 1960s, Warhol’s Flowers have also be interpreted as a symbol of mourning, as the artist created these works just after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
https://www.warhol.org/lessons/silkscreen-printing/underpainting-and-photographic-silkscreen-printing/
This was a fascinating read about this particular piece - definitely worth clicking the link and giving it a read
About the Art
Andy Warhol turned to his most notable style—photographic silkscreen printing—in 1962. This commercial process allowed him to easily reproduce the images that he appropriated from popular culture. Warhol’s Flowers series is a portfolio of ten screenprints and hundreds of paintings based off of photographs taken by Patricia Caulfield, which were featured in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography magazine. After selecting the image, Warhol sent it to a commercial silkscreen maker with a note as to the desired dimensions of the screen and the number of colors to be printed. After the image was exposed and the screen was prepared for printing, it was returned to The Factory, Warhol’s New York City studio. The photographic silkscreen printing process created a precise and defined image and allowed Warhol and his assistants to mass-produce a large number of prints with relative ease. While the flowers originate from realistic photographs, Warhol altered his versions of the flowers, by flattening, cropping, and increasing the contrast of the image, then painting them using vivid colors. Caulfield saw the initial prints and took legal action against Warhol. Warhol offered her a couple of prints in hopes of settling the dispute, but she declined the offer. They settled and in 1964 Warhol went on to exhibit his Flowers at the prominent Leo Castelli Gallery. While Warhol didn’t invent the photographic silkscreen process, he developed his own technique by combining hand-painted backgrounds with photographic silkscreen printed images to create unique works of art.
The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine.
ANDY WARHOL, ART NEWS, 1962
Points of View I tried doing them by hand, but I find it easier to use a screen. This way, I don’t have to work on my objects at all. One of my assistants or anyone else, for that matter, can reproduce the design as well as I could.
Andy Warhol, 1969
Martin Lawrence Galleries Presents Andy Warhol, from Soup to...!
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Martin Lawrence Galleries (MLG) today announced that its flagship Soho gallery, located at 457 West Broadway in NYC, will be showcasing a career retrospective of the works of Andy WarholOctober 18, 2018 09:30 ET | Source: Martin Lawrence Galleries
New York, Oct. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The presentation, which will run from November 16th to November 28th, will feature large and small-scale canvas paintings, matching numbered suites, unique paintings on paper and iconic print multiples. These works, made during one of the artist's most prolific periods, signify a culmination of the themes and processes explored throughout Warhol's career. The exhibition will feature iconic works such as the Flowers #64-73 (10pc suite), San Francisco Silverspot, and John Wayne, Cowboys and Indians.
"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat- manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing." Andy Warhol
A leader in the Pop Art Movement, Andy Warhol is today remembered most prominently for his pioneering silkscreen prints. Warhol's series Flowers-based on photographs taken by Patricia Caulfield and originally featured in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography Magazine-is a portfolio of ten screen-prints. The works, when initially presented, represented a surprising departure from the artist's initial themes of pop culture and commercialism. In the Flower series, several blocks of color comprise the four flowers while a variant of gray outlines the bed of grass. In this way, Warhol manipulated colors, so they became that much more vibrant against a dynamic background.
In 1983, Andy Warhol created a series of ten color screen-prints that portrayed endangered animals from around the world: One of those images, San Francisco Silverspot, captures the image a species of a butterfly and the silver markings underneath its wings. Its decline in population was the result of its habitat being close to major cities like Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco. The open areas became fewer and fewer due to suburbanization, and domination by non-native plants and grazing animals that destroy its habitat. Warhol fondly referred to this series as his "Animals in Makeup," given the bold pop colors he used to portray the animals as larger than life. The subject matter and context embraces Warhol's natural view of the future and our environment.
"The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. "Andy Warhol
The allure of celebrity myths and legends led Warhol to create the Cowboys and Indians series, a commentary on mass media. The depicted Hollywood characters were adapted from actual historical figures and the roles they played. Martin Lawrence Galleries will be exhibiting four portraits of a well-known, almost mythological All-American hero of the Old West – John Wayne. Leaning across the composition in a dramatic diagonal line, Wayne looks out into the distance. Deep shadows cover his face, making for an instantly arresting image. The silhouette of the actor stands out sharply against the clean white background, creating a negative space that adds further beauty. The source image is a publicity photo from the iconic film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence."
About Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born to Slovak immigrants on August 6, 1928, and reared in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. From an early age, he showed an interest in photography and drawing, attending free classes at the Carnegie Institute. The only member of his family to attend college, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein. He found steady work as a commercial artist working as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker. He also did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York."
Throughout the 1950's, Warhol enjoyed success as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. During this period, he shortened his name to "Warhol," and in 1952 had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting "Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote."
Subsequently, Warhol's work was exhibited in several venues throughout the fifties including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1955. In 1953 the artist produced his first illustrated book, A is an Alphabet and Love is a Pink Cake, which he gave to his clients and associates. With a burgeoning career as an illustrator, he formed Andy Warhol Enterprises in 1957.
1960 marked a turning point in Warhol's prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto his canvases with an opaque projector. In 1961, Warhol showed his paintings, Advertisement, Little King, Superman, Before and After, and Saturday's Popeye in a window display of Bonwit Teller department store. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art including the Campbell's Soup Can, Marilyn, and Elvis series. In 1963 Warhol established a studio at 231 East 47th Street which became known as the "Factory."
In the 1970s, Warhol renewed his focus on painting and worked extensively on a commissioned basis, both for corporations and individuals. Works included Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos, Mao's, and Shadows. Warhol also published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly established as a significant 20th-century an
artist and international celebrity, Warhol was given a major retrospective of his work at the Pasadena Art Museum which traveled to museums around the world.
The artist began the 1980s with the publication of POPism: The Warhol '60s. He also began work on Andy Warhol's TV, a series of half-hour video programs patterned after Interview magazine. In 1985, "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes" appeared on MTV, half-hour programs featuring celebrities, artists, musicians, and designers, with Warhol as the host.
The paintings he created during this time included Dollar Signs, Guns, and Last Suppers. He also produced several paintings in collaboration with other artists including Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Francesco Clemente.
Andy Warhol died of complications from routine gallbladder surgery, and during his burial in Pittsburgh, his friends and associates organized a memorial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on April 1 that was attended by more than 2,000 people. In 1989, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had a major retrospective of his works. In 2001 Heiner Bastian curated a Warhol retrospective that began in Berlin and traveled to the Tate in London and finally to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art will be exhibiting the city’s first comprehensive Andy Warhol retrospective in nearly 30 years—from November 12,2018-March 31, 2019
Andy Warhol – A Retrospective November 16-28, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, November 16th, 6-8:30 PM, RSVP ONLY Martin Lawrence Galleries
About Martin Lawrence Galleries Since 1978, Martin Lawrence Galleries (MLG)-headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with nine gallery locations nationwide including New York, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Francisco, Costa Mesa, La Jolla, Maui has been assisting and advising collectors as they consider acquiring fine art. (MLG), has prided and defined ourselves as both publishers of fine art prints and sculpture from the most talented contemporary artists-both North American and European-and home to modern and contemporary masters like Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, Calder, Magritte, Basquiat, and Murakami. We are extremely proud to have lent and exhibited over 200 masterworks, created by more than 30 different artists, to 30+ world-class museums around the globe…including the Louvre, the Pompidou, the Metropolitan, the Whitney, the National Gallery, the Tate and the Hermitage- where we are the sole sponsor of the first ever exhibition of the work of Erté, the father of art deco and we proudly publish works by artists including Kondakova, Hallam, Bertho, Fressinier, Lalonde and Deyber. For more information visit martinlawrence.com
Andy Warholhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
Andy Warhol
Born Andrew Warhola - August 6, 1928 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died February 22, 1987 (aged 58) New York City, U.S. Education Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Mellon University)
Known for Printmaking, painting, cinema, photography
Notable work:
Chelsea Girls (1966 film)
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966 event)
Campbell's Soup Cans (1962 painting)
Marilyn Diptych (1962 painting)
Movement Pop art
Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". In the late 1960s he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement. In June 1968, he was almost killed by radical feminist Valerie Solanas who shot him inside his studio.
After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster); his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".
Here was another unique find from the Bertram Roland Backstrom Collection.
Over the years Mr. Backstrom created and collected hundreds of art pieces of all media. He had a vast collection of ceramic artist Karen Karnes and her partner Ann Stannard. Bert purchased over fifty pieces of pottery from the couple. Add to that the list below of Ceramic Artists and you can see he had a keen eye.
We are just scratching the surface - Recent discoveries of prints, paintings and artifacts from Mr. Backstrom’s Estate keep turning up from the family warehouse. Many unseen works date back to before 1987 through 1996 when the last crate was stored away.
The Backstrom Estate includes paintings and prints from:George Grosz
Andy Warhol
Norman Bluhm
Jules Guerin
Francis Hamabe
Louise August
Morris Moshe Katz
Joaquín Espalter y Rull
M. Maleter
Lois Green - LG Cohen
Albrecht Durer
Jules Pascin
Richard Smith
Henri Matisse
Peter Max
Andy Warhol
Georges Braque
Samuel V. Chamberlain
Samuel Chatwood Burton
Juan García Ripollés
Ernest Trova
The Backstrom Estate includes ceramic pottery and sculpture from:Karen Karnes
Ann Stannard
Mikhail Zakin
Hiroshi Nakayama
Judy Glasser-Nakayama
Byron Temple
Charles Walter Clewell
Bruce Eppelsheimer
Bill Stewart
Jeffery Oestreich
Anne Shattuck-Bailey
Robert Winokur
Ron Garfinkle
Marie Moore Summers
Malcolm Wright
Bertram Backstrom
and Natalie Surving
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