Biography

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 Interviewmagazine.
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 in New York.

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ARTWORKS Andy Warhol

Christmas Ad, 1984
screen print on Saunders Waterford hot pressed paper
77.5 x 109 cm
Andy Warhol
Christmas Ad

1984

screen print on Saunders Waterford hot pressed paper

1 / 1

77.5 x 109 cm

with estate stamp on verso

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Schloss Neuschwanstein, 1987
silkscreen print on lenox museum cardboard with glitter
85.2 x 60 cm
Andy Warhol
Schloss Neuschwanstein

1987

silkscreen print on lenox museum cardboard with glitter

Edition of 100

85.2 x 60 cm

signed and numbered lower left

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Poinsettias
pencil on solid paper
81.5 x 61 cm
Andy Warhol
Poinsettias

pencil on solid paper

81.5 x 61 cm

verso estate stamp and archive number

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Space Fruit Cantaloups II, 1979
silkscreen print on lenox museum cardboard with glitter
76 x 102 cm
Andy Warhol
Space Fruit Cantaloups II

1979

silkscreen print on lenox museum cardboard with glitter

76 x 102 cm

signed and numbered lower right

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Space Fruits, 1979
silkscreen print on lenox museum cardboard with glitter
76 x 102 cm
Andy Warhol
Space Fruits

1979

silkscreen print on lenox museum cardboard with glitter

76 x 102 cm

signed and numbered lower left

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