Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Lot 250 Property from a Distinguished Private European Collector

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Aretha Franklin

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 305,000

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Aretha Franklin
stamped twice with the Estate of Andy Warhol stamp, stamped with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamp and numbered 'VF P050.008' (on the overlap); numbered again 'P050.008' (on the stretcher)
synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1986.

Dorothy Berenson Blau, Bay Harbor Islands
Aspen Art Museum
Private collection, Europe, 2001
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“To desire fame – not the glory of the hero but the glamour of the star – with the intensity and awareness Warhol did, is to desire to be nothing, nothing of the human, the interior, the profound. It is to want to be nothing but image, surface, a bit of light on a screen, a mirror for the fantasies and a magnet for the desires of others – a thing of absolute narcissism.” (T. de Duve quoted in D. Fogle, Andy Warhol/ Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964, exh. cat., Walker Art Center, New York, 2006, p. 18)