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James Warhola’s childhood memories of trips to New York City to visit his uncle, Andy Warhol, inspired this warm, funny story of the famous artist’s house full of cats.
This book is filled with Pop Art from famous artist Andy Warhol and can be used to introduce his oeuvre in a highly accessible way to kids.
From: The Ultimate Warhol Trivia: 25 Facts For Warhol Fans | MyArtBroker
- The actual Campbell soup cans could be bought at the rate of two for 33 cents, a fraction of the price of Warhol’s paintings which were selling for $100 each. Warhol’s first solo show was considered a flop but it wasn’t long before everyone was talking about this mysterious master of Pop.
- Not all his ideas were great
According to his closest friends Warhol was always coming up with ideas, taking inspiration from the world around him and translating it into his art with his signature ingenuity. Some of his ideas, however, were not so great; one time he is said to have declared that ‘Someone should invent a sandwich with a drink in it.’ - In 1964 someone shot a stack of Warhol’s Marilyns
One day at the Factory Dorothy Podber asked Warhol if she could ‘shoot’ a stack of four Marilyn paintings, and Warhol, believing she meant to photograph them, consented. When she got her pistol out he was a little surprised, however the damage done didn’t put him off; they were later exhibited with the holes painted over with makeup and a new title, Shot Marilyn. - Due to the brilliance of the anecdote associated with Warhol’s Shot Marilyn paintings, they sell for even more than the ordinary Marilyns, which are already among Warhol’s most iconic works. In May 2022, the auction sale of Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) took place at Christie’s New York, selling for an astonishing US$195 million (£158 million). The work became the most expensive piece of 20th-century art ever sold, a record previously held by Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O), which sold for $179.4 million, also at Christie’s, in May 2015
- The Soup Cans were not actually Andy’s idea
As Warhol was attempting to make the jump from commercial to fine art he employed friend and interior designer Muriel Latow to come up with some ideas for paintings. The first idea she gave him was to paint dollar bills, and the second became the Campbell’s Soup series which now sell for well over £1 million.
Andy Warhol Art for Sale: 468 Prints & Originals Available
Discover Andy Warhol art for sale online. Buy & sell original prints and editions, and learn about Andy Warhol’s background history and current market data.
Over the last 5 years around 40% of Warhol lots at auction were worth between $0 and $10k.
Having said that, most of Warhol’s oeuvre lies well beyond the $1million mark. Usually, these lots consist of his very large silkscreens printed onto canvas, rather than paper which was used for larger edition sizes. Many works are available on paper and are much more affordable.
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