Live Auction 2598Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Lot 116

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Marella Agnelli

Closed15 November 2012

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USD 290,500

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Marella Agnelli
stamped twice with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. stamps and numbered three times 'PO.50422' (on the overlap)
synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1973.

The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne

Specialist note

Henry Geldzahler said of Warhol's commissioned portraits: "[The commissioned portraits' aim] was always to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and come up with a likeness that was recognizable but existed in a 'world that never was,' a sort of... limbo where everyone was a star, not only for fifteen minutes, but, in this incarnation caught permanently on canvas, 'forever'" (H. Geldzahler quoted in Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol, New York, 2009, p. 436.