WARHOL 1959 Rare Original Watercolor Salad $15k VALUE Start Price USD 6,800.00 Current Price USD 6,800.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 23, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Location Not Specified See more about 'WARHOL 1959 Rare Original Watercolor Salad $15k VALUE' Description We would like to be your source for Old Masters and Contemporary Wonders...Most Items Ship Within 24 Hours...Bid With Confidence...Check our store for other GREAT art...From our walls to yours - Try ArtSavy TODAY... Salad de alf Landon Original watercolor over offset lithography, published in 1959 as part of the suite Wild Raspberries with Suzie Franfurt. Original Warhol Watercolor over offset lithography 11 x 17 inches. Framed dimensions are 21 x 27 inches.Included is the tirage page" Wild Raspberries by Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt" LITERATURE David Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, pp.66-67 (illustration of a full set in colour). Prints from the 'Wild Raspberries' suite have been offered at many of the major auction houses around the world. Artist Biography b. 1928, Pittsburgh; d. 1987, New York City Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh. He received his B.F.A. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1949. That same year, he moved to New York, where he soon became successful as a commercial artist and illustrator. During the 1950s, Warhol’s drawings were published in Glamour and other magazines and displayed in department stores. He became known for his illustrations of I. Miller shoes. In 1952, the Hugo Gallery in New York presented a show of Warhol’s illustrations for Truman Capote’s writings. He traveled in Europe and Asia in 1956. By the early 1960s, Warhol began to paint comic-strip characters and images derived from advertisements; this work was characterized by repetition of banal subjects such as Coca-Cola bottles and soup cans. He also painted celebrities at this time. Warhol’s new painting was exhibited for the first time in 1962, initially at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, then in a solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery, New York. By 1963, he had substituted a silkscreen process for hand painting. Working with assistants, he produced series of disasters, flowers, cows, and portraits, as well as three-dimensional facsimile Brillo boxes and cartons of other well-known household products. Starting in the mid-1960s, at The Factory, his New York studio, Warhol concentrated on making films that were marked by repetition and an emphasis on boredom. In the early 1970s, he began to paint again, returning to gestural brushwork, and produced monumental portraits of Mao Tse-tung, commissioned portraits, and the Hammer and Sickle series. He also became interested in writing: his autobiography, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), was published in 1975, and The Factory published Interview magazine. A major retrospective of Warhol’s work organized by the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970 traveled in the United States and abroad. Warhol died February 22, 1987, in New York. During the mid-1950s, Warhol began frequenting a chic restaurant-general store named Serendipity 3 on Manhattan's East Side. He liked the extravagant desserts and he got on famously with the three smart young men that owned the place. Andy often dropped by in the afternoon, after making the rounds at the as agencies, and sometimes he'd show the I.Miller drawings that had been rejected. Steven Bruce, one of Serendipity's co-owners, thought the rejects were often better than the ones chosen for publication and suggested that Warhol sell them through the store, which had a style-conscious clientele. Andy thought that was a great idea, so Serendipity had a batch of the drawings framed, priced them between twenty five and fifty dollars, and sold them off the walls. Before long, the store became known as a showcase for Warholiana, while the artist himself spent so much time there that many people suspected he was a part owner. Don't forget to browse through our eBay store. We carry a broad range of artists and carry everything from limited edition prints to originals and sculptures. Guarantee Each item we offer for sale is guaranteed as it is described. Framing Any auction or store item that is being sold with a frame has been custom framed by professionals with the highest regard for workmanship and care. Many of the frames that we offer would be quite expensive to duplicate. Shipping Shipping is always condensed to the single lowest shipping charge possible. Insurance is automatically included for all shipments in the shipping charge. 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