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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 | 40 | $****** - ****** | Nosepicker I: Why Pick on Me (The Broad Gave Me My Face But I Can Pick My Own Nose) |
paintings
76.5 x 63.5 cm (30.13 x 25 in)
tempera and ink on Masonite
signed with the artist's initials "a.w." on the reverse
Bequeathed by the artist to the present owners circa 1950
Pittsburgh, Arts and Crafts Center, Carnegie Institute Senior Show , June 1949
New York, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University; Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, "Success is a job in New York…": The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol , March 14-November 26, 1989, no. 3, p. 75 (dated 1946)
Paris, Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Warhol: Le grand monde d'Andy Warhol , March 16-July 13, 2009, no. 1, pp. 70-71 (illustrated, p. 68)
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 Warhol Museum, Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei , June 4-September 11, 2016
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, My Perfect, Imperfect Body , October 21, 2016-January 22, 2017, p. 11, 13, 73 (illustrated, p. 41)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Andy Warhol Now , December 12, 2020-June 13, 2021 (pp. 47, 212, illustrated, p. 72); then travelled as Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Andy Warhol , July 21-October 24, 2021 (pp. 47, 210, illustrated, p. 72); then travelled as Aspen Art Museum, Andy Warhol: Lifetimes , December 3, 2021-March 27, 2022
Patrick S. Smith, Andy Warhol's Art and Films , Ann Arbor, 1986, p. 14
Patrick S. Smith, Warhol: Conversations about the Artist , Ann Arbor, 1988, pp. 1, 6, 16, 31-32
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective , exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, fig. 6, p. 402 (illustrated, p. 403)
Gary Garrels, ed., The Work of Andy Warhol , Seattle, 1989, p. 5
Victor Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol , New York, 1989, p. 47
Jesse Kornbluth, "Pre-Pop Warhol," Carnegie Magazine , May/June 1989, p. 15
Renee Lucas Wayne, "'Two Dogs Kissing' By 'Strawberry Jello': Andy Warhol Lives Again in ICA Exhibit," Philadelphia Daily News , October 18, 1989, p. 47
Sarat Maharaj, "Pop Art's Pharmacies: Kitsch, Consumerist Objects and Signs, The 'Unmentionable,'" Art History , vol. 15, no. 3, September 1992, p. 342
Eric Shanes, Warhol , London, 1993, pp. 10, 140
John Yau, In The Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol , Hopewell, 1993, p. 115
Callie Angell, The Andy Warhol Museum , Pittsburgh, 1994, p. 163 (illustrated, p. 164; titled as Why Pick on Me? )
Barry Paris, "Warhol…Warhol…Warhol," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , vol. 67, no. 281, May 8, 1994, p. 10
Richard Leiby, "Their Brother's Keeper," The Washington Post , May 15, 1994, p. G6
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, The American Eye: Eleven Artists of the Twentieth Century , New York, 1995, p. 91
Heiner Bastian, Sammlung Marx: Andy Warhol - frühe Zeichnungen , Munich, 1996, pp. 10, 28
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion , exh. cat., The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, pp. 58, 69 (titled as I Can't Choose My Relatives, But I Can Pick My Nose )
José María Faerna, ed., Warhol , New York, 1997, p. 7
Colin MacCabe, Mark Francis and Peter Wollen, eds., Who is Andy Warhol? , London, 1997, p. 98
Raymond M. Herbenick, Andy Warhol's Religious and Ethnic Roots: The Carpatho-Rusyn Influence on His Art , Lewiston, 1997, pp. 38-39, 57, 86, 89
Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987 , exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 1998, p. 20
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art , exh. cat., Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1998, p. 58
Anne-Marie Tobin, "Warhol's magic strong as ever," Calgary Herald , February 17, 1998, p. E7
Ingrid Schaffner, The Essential Andy Warhol , New York, 1999, p. 28 (titled as Why Pick on Me? )
Bob Colacello, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up , New York, 2000, pp. 19-20
Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol , New York, 2001, p. 31
Carin T. Ford, Andy Warhol: Pioneer of Pop Art , Berkeley Heights, 2001, p. 27
Blake Stimson, "Andy Warhol's Red Beard," The Art Bulletin , vol. 83, no. 3, September 2001, p. 546
Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography , New York, 2003, p. 75
Steven Watson, Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties , New York, 2003, pp. 9, 30
Edward J. Rielly, The 1960s: American Popular Culture Through History , Westport, 2003, p. 238
Andy Warhol: Selbstportraits , exh. cat., Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, 2004, pp. 10, 21
The Andy Warhol Museum, ed., Andy Warhol: 365 Takes , London, 2004, p. 8
Kelly M. Cresap, Pop Trickster Fool: Warhol Performs Naivete , Urbana, 2004, pp. 46, 120
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop , New York, 2004, pp. 22, 152
Jerome Satterthwaite and Elizabeth Atkinson, eds., Discourses of Education in the Age of New Imperialism , Sterling, 2005, p. 173
André Gali, "Andy takes his Warhol off," Nordisk kunsttidsskrift , October 3, 2008, online
Matt Wrbican and Geralyn Huxley, Andy Warhol Treasures , London, 2009, p. 23
Mériam Korichi, Andy Warhol , Paris, 2009, n.p.
Daniela Franco, "Warhol: el Payasito de la Tele," Letras Libres , vol. XI, no. 129, September 2009, p. 98
Tony Scherman and David Dalton, Andy Warhol: His Controversial Life, Art and Colourful Times , London, 2010, pp. 12-13, 50, 212
Gary Indiana, Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World , New York, 2010, p. 16
Rudo Prekop and Michal Cihlář, Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia , Řevnice, 2011, p. 114
Marie Cordié-Levy, "De l'effet de sidération et de peur dans les autoportraits d'Andy Warhol," E-rea , vol. 8, no. 2, 2011, online
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal , exh. cat., ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 2012, p. 123
Edward D. Powers, "'All Things That I Didn't Want to Change Anyway': Andy Warhol and the Sociology of Difference," American Art , vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2012, fig. 5, pp. 55-58, 71-72 (illustrated, p. 56 and on the front cover)
Joseph D. Ketner II, Andy Warhol , London, 2013, p. 15
Alice Goldfarb Marquis, The Pop Revolution: The People Who Radically Transformed the World , London, 2013, p. 97
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal , exh. cat., Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2014, fig. 9, p. 271 (illustrated, p. 265)
KZ - KAMPF - KUNST. Boris Lurie: NO!Art , exh. cat., Kölner NSDokumentationszentrum, Cologne, 2014, pp. 111, 113
Philip Pearlstein, "Watching Warhola Become Warhol," ARTnews , vol. 113, no. 4, April 2014, p. 77
Cristina Rouvalis, "Andy Warhol, Revealed," Carnegie Magazine , Summer 2014, p. 15
Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York , exh. cat., The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2015, p. 10
Deborah Davis, The Trip: Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure , New York, 2015, pp. 31, 258
Warhol Unlimited , exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, 2015, no. 5, p. 228 (illustrated, p. 18)
George Cotkin, Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility , New York, 2016, p. 177
Claudia Kalb, Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities , Washington, D.C., 2016, p. 63
"Andy Warhol Museum," C-SPAN , September 19, 2016, online (Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2016, installation view illustrated, 2:36-3:49; titled as Nosepicker I: Why Pick on Me (The Lord Gave Me My Face But I Can Pick My Own Nose) )
Cristina Rouvalis, "My Perfect Imperfect Body," Carnegie Magazine , Fall 2016, online (illustrated)
Inventing America: Rockwell + Warhol , exh. cat. The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, 2017, p. 10
Alex J. Taylor, "'Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body,'" ARTnews , vol. 116, no. 2, Summer 2017, p. 131
R.C. Baker, "Thirty Years After His Death, Andy Warhol's Spirit Is Still Very Much Alive," The Village Voice , February 22, 2017, online
Andy Warhol-From A to B and Back Again , exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2018, fig. C, pp. 17, 19, 32, 67 (illustrated, p. 18)
John Martin Tilley, "We Need to Talk About Andy," office , May 9, 2019, online
Stuart Lenig, The Many Lives of Andy Warhol , London, 2021, p. 9
Stefan Trinks, "Der unbekannte Andy Warhol," Frankfurter Allgemeine , March 10, 2021, online (illustrated)
Anthony E. Grudin, Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies , Oakland, 2022, fig. 7, p. 25 (illustrated)
signed with the artist's initials "a.w." on the reverse
tempera and ink on Masonite
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm)
Executed in 1948.
