Lot 166
  • 166

ANDY WARHOL | Untitled (Folding Screen)

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Untitled (Folding Screen)
  • signed
  • silver leaf, gold and silver appliqué, ink and watercolor on primed cardboard and wood screen
  • 68 1/4 by 55 in. 173.4 by 139.7 cm.
  • Executed circa 1957.

Provenance

The Gilded Lily Corporation, New York
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Cowles, New York (acquired from the above in October 1957)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum; Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; London, Barbican Art Gallery, Pop Art Design, October 2012 - February 2013, p. 94, illustrated in color

Literature

Jesse Kornbluth, Pre-Pop Warhol, New York 1988, p. 89, illustrated in color
Jesse Kornbluth, "The Art that Came before the Fame," New York Magazine, 31 October 1988, p. 55, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. All appliqué elements are secure and intact, and there is some adhesive residue visible inherent to the artist's working method. The silver leaf shows signs of wear and some spots of loss, likely inherent to the artist's working method and chosen medium. There is scattered hairline craquelure throughout the painted elements, inherent to the artist’s working method and chosen medium. There is significant craquelure on the blue angel in the center screen's face, and on the face of the angel on the bottom of the left panel.
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Catalogue Note

"Considering these circumstances we ought to realize that one aspect more or less dominates Warhol's entire work: a leaning toward caricature in its broadest sense, which is always viewed in its affinity to the here and now, to the everyday, the commonplace, the 'realism' in painting. It is these exuberantly childlike elements, both literary and humorous, along with his choice of decorative coloration and his choice of subject matter, made up of everyday objects in common usage that supply the evidence of an aspect preeminent in Warhol's [works]."
Rainer Crone in Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Württemberger Kunstverein Stuttgart Kunstgebäude, Andy Warhol: Das zeichnerische Werk 1945-1975, New York 1987, p. 18