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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2021 | THE SHADOW : FROM "MYTHS" | 71 | Est-Ouest Auctions | Tokyo | |||
Prints & Multiples
94 x 94 cm (37.01 x 37.01 in)
silkscreen
signed and numbered on the lower right. stamped on the reverse "「© ANDY WARHOL 1981 PUBLISHER RONALD FELDMAN FINE ARTS INC. NEW YORK"
"Andy Warhol Prints : A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987", Tokyo, p.119, No.II.267
In 1981, Warhol created a series of myths focusing on iconic figures in American cinema, history, and culture. Uncle Sam, Superman, Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse appear in the series, among which Warhol uses his self-portrait. This work depicts Warhol's childhood hero, Shadows, who fought a fictional crime that became popular on the radio in the 1930s. Warhol experimented with the concept of shadows in a series of works entitled "Shadows", produced between 1978 and 1979, which led to his subsequent exploration of Warhol's subject matter. In this work of the 1981 myth series, the self-portrait of Warhol dyed in bright red is placed on the right side of the composition, and the shadow of Warhol is shown in contrasting cool blue on the left side. This contrasting colour blocking further emphasizes the difference between Warhol himself and his shadows, and the placement of his self-portrait and the direction in which the shadows are directed reminds the viewer of a split persona. Born in 1928, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Received B.F.A. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh in 1949, then moved to New York and starting his career as a commercial artist and illustrator. By the early 1960s, he began to make paintings of cartoon characters and images derived from advertisements such as Coca-Cola bottles and Campbell's soup cans as well as the celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy. He held his first exhibition at the Ferus Gallery, in New York Guggenheim Museum in 1962, and his solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery, New York in 1963. Founded the Factory that was his studio in 1963 and concentrated on making films. In the early 1970s, he began to paint again, produced monumental portrait of Mao Tse-Tung and Hammer and Sickle series. Published his autobiography ｢The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)｣ in 1975. He died of a heart attack on February 22, 1987. After his death, the largest retrospective exhibition in Japan was held at the Mori Arts Center in 2014, and in recent years, the largest retrospective in 2020 at Tate Modern in London for the first time in 20 years.
