Photo For Parkett

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Photo For Parkett

signed and numbered '110/120 Andy Warhol' (on the reverse)

4 photographic prints machine-sewn

overall: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)

Executed in 1987. This work is number 110 from an edition of 120. This work is accompanied by a special edition of Parkett, where the piece originally appeared.

Published by Parkett Publishers, Zürich and New York for Parkett 12.

PROVENANCE:

Acquired directly from the publisher by the present owner

NOTES:

“Andy was what sports fans call a most valuable player. His work is more valuable now, but not because of some laws of marketing, but because he’s not around himself. Those works are souvenirs and relics. They’re pieces of Andy.”

-Glenn O’Brien, Parkett No. 12, 1987

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) emerged as a pioneering figure at the forefront of the 1960s Pop Art movement. His vivid silkscreens of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Monroe, and other commercial icons blurred the lines between fine art, mass production and advertising. Working across film, photography, painting and printmaking, Warhol upended traditional notions of authorship and elevated the artist to celebrity status. His Factory studio became an incubator for artistic innovation, and his incisive critique of consumerism and fame continues to shape contemporary art and popular culture today. These photographs were some of the last Warhol took before passing away in February, 1987.

Parkett offers a unique and comprehensive archive of contemporary art and artists from around the world. Its 101 volumes, published between 1984 and 2017, include direct collaborations with some of the most compelling artists of the time. Across the series, 270 artists’ portraits were presented, each accompanied by three to five texts written by renowned critics, authors and curators. In addition to these in-depth features, every collaborating artist created an editioned artwork specifically for Parkett, taking diverse forms such as prints, sculptures, installations, media works, paintings and drawings.