Andy Warhol, Committee 2000, 1982
The American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to where and when … [Read biography »]
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Signed Andy Warhol, Original Color Warhol Screenprint, Committee 2000, 1982  |
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| Artist: | Warhol, Andy (1928 - 1987) |
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| Title: | Committee 2000, 1982 |
| Medium: | Original Color Warhol Screenprint |
| Image Size: | 30 in x 20 in (76.2 cm x 50.8 cm) |
| Sheet Size: | 30 1/16 in x 20 1/6 in (76.35 cm x 50.95 cm) |
| Framed Size: | approx. 50 in x 40 in (127 cm x 101.6 cm) |
| Signed: | Hand signed by Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) in pencil in the lower right |
| Edition: | Numbered 990/2000 in pencil in the lower right; stamped on the verso in red: '© Andy Warhol 1982.' Features printer's chop mark in the lower left |
| Condition: | The work is good condition with colors vibrant and richly saturated |
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The Committee 2000 was an organization which worked on projects to commemorate the year 2000. Plans were started in the early 1980s and Andy Warhol created this work to help raise funds on their behalf. It is a fun and whimsical piece with a celebratory undertone. Anticipating the millennia festivities, Warhol has included a depiction of horns, party hats, and confetti, arranged in a geometric pattern; the entire composition resonates a mechanical quality, highlighted with bright pink outlines, hues of yellow, teal, blue, and purple. Created in 1982, this work is hand signed by Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) in pencil in the lower right. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York on Lenox Museum Board out of the total edition of 2,000 (aside from 200 AP, 25 PP, 50 HC, and 5 TP) and numbered 990/2000 in pencil in the lower right. Published by Committee 2000, Munich, Germany, the piece has been stamped on the verso in red ink: ‘© Andy Warhol 1982.’ Catalogue Raisonné & COA: 1. Feldman, F. & Schellmann, J. (2003) . Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, 4th ed. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.: New York. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. II.289 on pg. 128. Further detail on pg. 218. About the Framing: | |
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Biography of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
The American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to where and when Andy Warhol was born, but according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th in Pittsburgh. Whether or not this is the day he was born hasn't been proved, but it was on this date he would celebrate his birthday. However, there is no doubt that he died at 6:31 A.M. on Sunday, February 22nd, 1987, at the New York Hospital after a gallbladder operation. He is considered a founder and major figure of the POP ART movement. A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He got his first break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success is a Job in New York". But by accident the credit read "Drawings by Andy Warhol" and that's how Andy dropped the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings depicting enlarged comic strip images - such as Popeye and Superman - initially for use in a window display. Warhol pioneered the development of the process whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back. Each Warhol silkscreen used this technique that enabled him to produce the series of mass-media images - repetitive, yet with slight variations - that he began in 1962. These, incorporating such items as Campbell's Soup cans, dollar bills, Coca-Cola bottles, and the faces of celebrities, can be taken as comments on the banality, harshness, and ambiguity of American culture.
Later in the 1960s, Warhol made a series of experimental films dealing with such ideas as time, boredom, and repetition; they include Sleep (1963), Empire (1964), and The Chelsea Girls (1966). In 1965 he started working with a rockband called "The Velvet Underground" formed by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy introduced them to the model and moviestar Nico and she sang on their debut album from 1967 "The Velvet Underground and Nico". Andy would travel around the country, not only with The Velvets, but also with superstar of the year Edie Sedgwick and the lightshow "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable".
On June 3rd, 1968, Valerie Solanis, a rejected superstar, came into The Factory and shot Andy three times in the chest. He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead, but after having his chest cut up and been given heart massage, he survived. Valerie Solanis turned herself in that night and was put in a mental institution. She was later given a three year prison sentence. After recovering Andy Warhol continued to work. He founded inter/VIEW magazine in 1969 (they changed the name to Interview in 1971), published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again in 1975 and continued to paint portraits until his death in 1987.
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