ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Based on a composite of two photographs taken by Neil Armstrong of Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin Jr. walking on the moon for the first time on the Apollo 11 mission, the Moonwalk screenprints were originally intended to be included in a portfolio entitled TV  that Warhol had begun to undertake before his death on February 22 1987. The portfolio was to depict well-known images from the history of television with other subjects being Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I Have a Dream” Speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. and Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles on his television show in February 1964 amongst others. Moonwalk was the only subject from the portfolio to be printed before Warhol’s death and as such, with their bright colour schemes and iconic subject matter are among the most sought after works in his graphic oeuvre.