Coke Life! Caffeine and 17 g of sugar(s), what kind of life is that and what would Andy make of it all? Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola (cropped) signed Andy Warhol (on the turning edge) casein on cotton 69 3/8 x 54 in. (176.2 x 137.2 cm.) Painted in 1962. Recalling the decisive moment when he first recognized his future path as a Pop artist and the birth of his own unique aesthetic, Andy Warhol wrote in his memoir how it had begun in early 1962 with a visit from his friend Emile de Antonio, whom he called De. At five o clock one particular afternoon, Warhol wrote, the doorbell rang and De (Emile de Antonio) came in and sat down. I poured Scotch for us, and then I went over to where two paintings Id done, each about six feet high and three feet wide, were propped, facing the wall. I turned them around and placed them side by side against the wall and then I backed away to take a look at them myself. One of them was a Coke bottle with Abstract Expressionist hash marks halfway up the side. The second one was just a stark, outlined Coke bottle in black and white. I didnt say a thing to De. I didnt have to-he knew what I wanted to know. Well, look, Andy, he said after staring at them for a couple of minutes. One of these is a piece of shit, simply a little bit of everything. The other is remarkable-its our society, its who we are, its absolutely beautiful and naked, and you ought to destroy the first one and show the other. That afternoon was an important one for meI still had the two styles I was working in-the more lyrical painting with gestures and drips and the hard style without the gestures. I liked to show both to people to goad them into commenting on the differences. Medium casein on cotton Year of Work 1962 Size Height 69.4 in.; Width 54 in. / Height 176.2 cm.; Width 137.2 cm. Misc. Signed Sale of Christies New York: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 [Lot 00027] Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale Estimate 40,000,000 - 60,000,000 USD Sold For 57,285,000 USD Premium Currency Converter Provenance Andy Warhol Studio, New York S. I. Newhouse, Jr. , New York, acquired from the above, 1986 Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995 Exhibition Tokyo, Daimaru and Kobe, Daimaru, Andy Warhol, October-November 1974, no. 3 (illustrated). Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Andy Warhol Sammlung Jos Mugrabi, September 1996-January 1997, pp. 95 and 190, no. 51 (illustrated in color). Helsinki Kunsthalle, Andy Warhol, August-November 1997 (illustrated). Warsaw, National Museum and Krakow, National Museum, Andy Warhol: Works from the Private Collection of Jos Mugrabi, March-July 1998, pp. 80-81 and 232, no. 57 (illustrated in color). Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Warhol, October-December 1999 (illustrated). Kochi, The Museum of Art; Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Sakura, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Nagoya City Art Museum and Niigata City Art Museum, Andy Warhol: from Collection of Mugrabi, February 2000-February 2001, p. 81, no. 59 (illustrated in color). Grimaldi Forum Monaco, SuperWarhol, July-August 2003, pp. 48 and 527, no. 24 (illustrated in color). New York, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol Early Hand-Painted Works, September-October 2005, pp. 62-63, 68, 114 and 123-124 (illustrated in color and on the cover). London, Gagosian Gallery, Pop Art is:, September-November 2007, no. 36 (illustrated in color). Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Le grand monde dAndy Warhol, March-July 2009, pp. 150-151, no. 171 (illustrated in color). New York, Acquavella Galleries, The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, April-May 2013, pp. 36-37 and 248 (illustrated in color). Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Wanted: Selected Works from the Mugrabi Collection, August 2013, pp. 4-5, 40 and 61 (illustrated in color) Literature G.R. Swenson, The new American Sign Painters, ARTnews, September 1962, pp. 46 and 61 (illustrated). S. Melikian, Power Couple Takes Leave of Auction Scene, International Herald Tribune, 10-11 February 1996, p. 7 (illustrated). G. Frei and N. Printz, ed., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonn Paintings and Sculpture 1961-1963, vol. 1, New York, 2002, pp. 97 and 101, no. 82 (illustrated). A.C. Danto, Andy Warhol: the Early Sixties: Paintings and Drawings, 1961-1964, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, 2010, pp. 84-85 (illustrated in color). Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, exh. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012, pp. 12 and 303 (illustrated)
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:23:14 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015