Live Auction 2599Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Lot 406 Works from the Douglas S. Cramer Collection

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Brillo Soap Pads

Closed15 November 2012

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USD 410,500

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Brillo Soap Pads
silkscreen ink and paint on plywood
20 x 20 x 17 in. (50.8 x 50.8 x 43.1 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1969.

Stephen Mazoh, New York
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Martin and Janet Blinder, Los Angeles
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"Once you "got" Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. The mystery was gone, but the amazement was just starting"
(A. Warhol, quoted in P. Hackett, POPism: The Warhol '60s, New York, 1980, pp. 39-40).