Live Auction 2766Andy Warhol at Christie's Sold to Benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
ANDY WARHOL
Lot 484

ANDY WARHOL

Bats, from Vanishing Animals

Closed12 November 2012

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USD 13,750

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ANDY WARHOL
Bats, from Vanishing Animals
screenprint in colors, 1986, on Lenox Museum Board, one of a small number of impressions, with the 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Authorized by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' inkstamps on the reverse, with wide margins, generally in very good condition, framed
Image: 14 x 11 in. (356 x 279 mm.)
Sheet: 18 x 13 in. (457 x 330 mm.)

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After creating his famed Endangered Species series, where he famously appropriated the iconography of his celebrity portraits to depict animals, Warhol illustrated the book Vanishing Animals by Kurt Benirschke. Before each chapter in Vanishing Animals, Warhol illustrated a portrait of fifteen animals. The inspiration of animals as subject matter signaled Warhol's interest in the plight of endangered species in the 1980s.