American,c b. August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, PA — d. February 22, 1987, New York, New York
Lived and worked in New York, New York

Andy Warhol achieved almost worldwide household recognition as the iconic symbol of the American Pop Art movement that emerged in the 1960s. Pop artists maintained a commonality in their choice of popular culture imagery as their fundamental subject.

Already an award-winning commercial artist in New York, Warhol in the late 1950s began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of Pop Art — paintings whose subjects focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and Pop Art into the national spotlight for the first time.

Early Pop progenitor, British artist Richard Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business. As Warhol himself put it, once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Andy Warhol is known, too, for his painted celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colors of famous celebrity icons including Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley and China’s Mao Zedong. As these portraits gained fame and notoriety, Warhol began to receive hundreds of commissions for portraits from socialites and celebrities. He then produced silkscreen editions of those images as a way of gaining wider distribution for them.

Famous for his 1967 Time magazine prediction of the day when everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, Warhol's life and work simultaneously satirized and celebrated materiality and celebrity. On the one hand, his paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be read as a critique of what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity. On the other hand, Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggest a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized.

Andy Warhol artworks are must-haves for every comprehensive museum and private art collection worldwide.

Andy Warhol is one of our most popular artists and our Inventory changes almost daily. Pieces listed here are just a few that we have currently. Prices are available on request.

Paintings, drawings, signed and numbered prints available:
Marilyn Monroe
Mick Jagger
Mao
Campbell’s Soup Cans
Ads
Endangered Species

Various other prints available. Please inquire.