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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2022 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 41 | $****** - ****** | Living Room |
Works on Paper
38.1 x 50.2 cm (15 x 19.75 in)
tempera, watercolor, ink, graphite and collage on paper
Bequeathed by the artist to the present owners circa 1950
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein (no. 17, p. 221, illustrated, p. 65; dated circa 1945); Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Andy Warhol: Das zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975 , February 19, 1976-March 6, 1977
New York, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center; Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, “Success is a job in New York…”: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol , March 14-November 26, 1989, fig. 27A, no. 1, pp. 28, 75 (illustrated, p. 27; dated circa 1945); then travelled as Jouy-en-Josas, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Andy Warhol System: Pub - Pop - Rock, Success is a Job in New York , June 14-September 8, 1990
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Robert Lepper: Artists and Teacher , August 23, 2002-January 12, 2003
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, February 3, 2010-April 1, 2019 (on extended loan)
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Andy Warhol: The College Years , August 6, 2010-January 2, 2011
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York , May 30-September 6, 2015, p. 59 (illustrated, p. 32); then travelled as New York, Betty Cuningham Gallery, Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: From Carnegie Tech to New York , December 3, 2015-March 5, 2016
Stockbridge, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Inventing America: Rockwell + Warhol , June 10-October 29, 2017, p. 83 (illustrated, p. 7)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago, Andy Warhol-From A to B and Back Again , November 12, 2018-January 26, 2020, pp. 17, 110, 386 (illustrated, p. 111)
Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol: Revelation , November 19, 2021-June 19, 2022
Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist , New York, 1987, no. 17, p. 268 (illustrated, p. 39; dated circa 1945)
David Bourdon, Warhol , New York, 1989, pl. 7, p. 18 (illustrated, p. 19)
Callie Angell, The Andy Warhol Museum , Pittsburgh, 1994, p. 162 (illustrated)
Roberta Smith, "The New Warhol Museum: A Shrine for an Iconoclast," The New York Times , May 26, 1994, p. C18
Van M. Cagle, Reconstructing Pop/Subculture: Art, Rock, and Andy Warhol , Thousand Oaks, 1995, p. 64 (dated 1946-1947)
Reva Wolf, “Introduction: A Radio and a Crucifix,” Religion and the Arts , vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 1996, fig. 1, pp. 11, 13 (illustrated, p. 10)
Raymond M. Herbenick, Andy Warhol's Religious and Ethnic Roots: The Carpatho-Rusyn Influence on His Art , Lewiston, 1997, pp. 18, 31
Jane Daggett Dillenberger, The Religious Art of Andy Warhol , New York, 1998, fig. 5, p. 19 (illustrated)
Susan Goldman Rubin, Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter , New York, 2006, pp. 10-11 (illustrated)
Michael J. Golec, The Brillo Box Archive: Aesthetics, Design, and Art , Hanover, 2008, pp. 92, 94-95
Matt Wrbican and Geralyn Huxley, Andy Warhol Treasures , London, 2009, p. 8 (illustrated)
Kurt Shaw, "'College Years' shows Warhol's early work," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , November 17, 2010, online
Rudo Prekop and Michal Cihlář, Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia , Řevnice, 2011, p. 62 (illustrated)
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal , exh. cat., Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2014, fig. 8, p. 267 (illustrated, p. 265; dated 1946-1947)
Barbara Klein, “Before They Were Famous,” Carnegie Magazine , Summer 2015, online (illustrated)
Ed Breslin, “Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Carnegie Tech to New York,” The Brooklyn Rail , February 2016, online
Catherine D. Anspon, "The Secret Life of Andy Warhol," Paper City Magazine , August 6, 2016, online (illustrated; dated circa 1946-1947)
Katherine Atkins and Kelly Kivland, eds., Artists on Andy Warhol: Robert Buck, Glenn Ligon, Jorge Pardo, Kara Walker, James Welling , New York, 2018, p. 43 (illustrated)
Tim Teeman, “The Whitney Museum's Andy Warhol Show Is More Than His Greatest Hits,” The Daily Beast , November 7, 2018, online
Jerry Saltz, "This Too Is Andy Warhol, Shunned and Swooned Over: The Story of an American Revolutionary in Eight Works," Vulture , November 8, 2018, online (illustrated)
Jill Spalding, “Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” studio international , November 14, 2018, online (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2018, installation view illustrated)
Ariella Budick, “Andy Warhol: social critic, branding wizard,” Financial Times , November 16, 2018, online (illustrated)
Murray Whyte, “Andy Warhol, beyond the limelight,” The Boston Globe , December 2, 2018, p. N7
Kristin Nord, “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” Antiques And The Arts Weekly , January 22, 2019, online
Stephen Metcalf, “Warhol's Bleak Prophecy,” The Atlantic , January/February 2019, online
“Why Andy Warhol retrospective has special resonance in the Instagram age,” PBS News Hour , February 20, 2019, online (illustrated, 1:37-1:41)
Steve Johnson, “You know less about Andy Warhol than you think,” The Chicago Tribune , October 27, 2019, Section 4, p. 8
Benjamin Secher, “‘Ma, Ma, let's say our prayers...',” The Daily Telegraph , March 7, 2020, p. 4
Anthea Gerrie, “Review: Warhol at the Tate,” Design Curial , July 16, 2020, online
Andy Warhol , exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2020, fig. 3, p. 15 (illustrated, p. 12)
Andy Warhol...From the Beginning and Back , exh. cat., BWA SOKÓŁ Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sącz, 2021, p. 22 (illustrated)
Kame Hame, “The Brooklyn Museum Examines Andy Warhol's Catholic Faith,” Widewalls , December 6, 2021, online (illustrated)
tempera, watercolor, ink, graphite and collage on paper
15 x 19 3/4 in. (38.1 x 50.2 cm)
Executed in 1948, this work is accompanied by the artist's original course assignment text affixed to the reverse.
