Committee 2000 (Double-Sided)

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Committee 2000 (Double-Sided)

unique screenprint printed on both sides

35 x 23 inches (88.9 x 58.4 cm)

Executed circa 1982.

Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York.

PROVENANCE:

Andy Warhol Foundation

Acquired from the above by the present owner

NOTES:

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.

Commissioned by the German foundation Committee 2000 to raise funds for millennium projects, Committee 2000 exemplifies Warhol’s ability to harness consumerism in service of philanthropy. The work employs bright color, graphic immediacy, and a celebratory visual language that echoes the nightlife, glamour, and social scenes Warhol famously embraced. By merging charitable purpose with the aesthetics of promotion and spectacle, the print underscores Warhol’s belief that visibility, pleasure, and mass appeal could be powerful tools for social impact.