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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2023 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session | 143 | $****** - ****** | Good | Nosepicker II |
paintings
94 x 46 cm (37 x 18.13 in)
tempera, pencil and ink on Masonite
Bequeathed by the artist to the present owners circa 1950
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Andy Warhol: Das zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975 , 1976, no. 92, pp. 109, 223 (illustrated, p. 109; dated circa 1945)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Success is a Job in New York: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol , March 14, 1989-September 9, 1990, p. 27
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; London, Tate Modern, Andy Warhol: Retrospective , October 2, 2001-April 1, 2002, no. 3, pp. 15, 62, 306 (illustrated, p. 62; erroneously titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose )
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, February 3, 2010-April 1, 2019 (long term 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 Carnegie Tech to New York , May 30-September 6, 2015, p. 59
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, My Perfect Body , October 21, 2016-January 22, 2017, p. 73
Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell Museum, Inventing America: Rockwell + Warhol , June 10-October 29, 2017, pp. 11, 83 (illustrated, p. 11)
Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist , New York, 1987, no. 92, pp. 111, 272 (illustrated, p. 111; dated 1946)
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective , exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, p. 14 (illustrated)
Warhol, Le grand monde d'Andy Warhol , exh. cat., Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris, 2009, fig. 3, p. 26 (illustrated; titled as The Lord Gave me my Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose (Nose Picker 2) )
David Anfam, ed., Andy Warhol , New York, 2011, pp. 20-21 (illustrated, p. 21; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose )
Rudo Prekop and Michal Cihlár, Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia , New York, 2011, p. 71 (illustrated; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose )
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. 6, pp. 55-57 (illustrated, p. 57)
Joseph D. Ketner II, Andy Warhol , New York, 2013, no. 12, p. 21 (illustrated; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose )
Bill O'Driscoll, “ArtReview: Body of Work,” Pittsburgh City Paper , vol. 27, issue 2, January 11, 2017, p. 21
tempera, pencil and ink on Masonite
37 x 18 1/8 in. (94 x 46 cm)
Executed in 1948.
