ANDY WARHOL | Cats and Dogs (Pom)

executed in mid 1976, this work is stamped with the Andy Warhol Estate stamp and inscribed with number PA27.022

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Lococo Fine Art, St. Louis
Opera Gallery, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above

St. Louis, Lococo Fine Art, 2006, n.p. (illustrated in colour)

Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture 1974-1976, vol. 4, Zurich and New York, 2002, cat. no. 3265, pp. 389, 392 (illustrated in colour)

This work is in very good condition. Possible two minor linear paint losses located 30 cm from the right edge and 19 cm from the top edge of the work. Under UV light examination there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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Throughout the mid-1970s, Andy Warhol produced a series of seventy-two paintings and approximately forty-five drawings with animals as their subject matter. Created within the context of a series of animal portraits, commissioned by the collector Peter Brant and the art dealer James Mayor, they were intended to initiate a new category of individual portrait commissions. The Pom and Maurice series, of which the present work forms a part of, is as a testimony of the initiation’s success. Cats and Dogs (Pom), executed in mid-1976, was commissioned on the occasion when Warhol opened his Cats and Dogs exhibition in June 1976 at Mayer Gallery in London by Sir Robert Adeane who was then the gallery director. The painting depicts a female King Charles spaniel named Pom belonging to Lady Jane Adeane, the director’s wife. The sitting of Pom took place at the gallery where Warhol used his Polaroid Big Shot to photograph the spaniel and the portraits were developed in the artist’s studio. Warhol ended up painting seven portraits of Pom in various colour schemes and poses, four of them presenting Pom with a full-length frontal view as shown in our present work, two others in seated profile and the remaining one in recumbent pose. In addition, Warhol made at least seven drawings of Pom - the most of any one subject from the series. One would imagine that the spaniel was a most engaging and cooperative subject and a fond favorite of the artist.