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D’APRÈS ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
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ANDY WARHOL / INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BOSTON. 1966.
33
3
/
4
x21
3
/
4
inches, 85
3
/
4
x55
1
/
4
cm.
Condition B+: creases and abrasions at edges and in corners; pin holes in corners. Silkscreen. Paper.
Following an article in
Time
magazine on American Pop in which he was featured, Warhol’s first solo
show of Pop paintings was at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, in 1962. His first solo show in New
York City was later that year at the Stable Gallery. The following years, with the burgeoning interest
in Pop Art, saw his paintings included in group shows at such venerated institutions as the Pasadena
Art Museum, Sidney Janis Gallery, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery (in Paris), the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Leo Castelli Gallery. Towards the
end of 1965, his first solo museum show was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the
University of Pennsylvania. That opening has entered into Art History legend as Warhol, Edie
Sedgwick and others in his retinue had to flee the scene as the crowd had become so large and unruly.
His second solo museum show was the following year at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston.
In conjunction with this exhibition, the Institute published the renowned
Campbell’s Soup Can
(Tomato)
on a shopping bag. For the poster, the museum employs the same image used by Leo Castelli
for a Warhol show earlier that year, a self-portrait based on a photograph taken by Rudolph Burkhardt.
Curiously, the museum credits the photographer with the image, despite the fact that Warhol refers
to it as a self-portrait.
RARE
.
[5,000/7,500]