Fine Pop Art Limited Edition Trial Print – Gun Series, Andy Warhol, Signed & Stamped With Estate Stamp
Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
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Item details
Height
21.0 cm
Width
29.6 cm
Wear conditions
Good
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Description
Offering a fine artwork:
Gun (triple)
- offset lithograph from guns and knives series , limited edition trial proof, marked on verso
- hand signed in pencil in the lower left
- dimensions: 21.0 x 29.6 cm
- Estate and foundation stamp on verso with annotation in pencil
- additional trial proof reference stamp on verso
- on fine quality, archival, matte, thick paper, in very good condition, light color fading can be noticed
- accompanied by a short bio of the artist
"The Guns and Knives paintings from 1981-1982 are stark reminders of the violent society we lived in then and now. Having nearly been killed by a handgun Andy was able to make paintings of guns as iconic objects. In order to choose which guns he would use we made calls to friends who might know someone with a gun. A few scary people, with first names only, came by and let Andy take Polaroid's of their weapons. I remember him photographing a saw-off shotgun" (V. Fremont, Cast a Cold Eye: The Late Work of Andy Warhol, New York, 2006, p.157).
In Gun, Warhol has cleverly intertwined two Hi-Standard Sentinel handguns, rendered in stark black ink with obsessive, minute detail and enlarged to dominance that looms powerfully over the viewer. The gravitas of Gun is heightened considering the type of weapon that he depicts—the same type of gun that was used by Valerie Solanas in her assassination attempt that very nearly claimed his life.
Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, creating some of the most recognizable images ever produced. Challenging the idealist visions and personal emotions conveyed by abstraction, Warhol embraced popular culture and commercial processes to produce work that appealed to the general public. He was one of the founding fathers of the Pop art movement.
Warhol pioneered the development of the process whereby an photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back. Each Warhol silkscreen used this technique that enabled him to produce the series of mass-media images – repetitive, yet with slight variations – that he began in 1962. Of his prints, Warhol has said “the reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”
To reinforce this statement Andy Warhol launched his print publishing company that he named Factory Additions. The enterprise was timely; the past five years had seen Warhol rise from graphic illustrator to silver-haired art star, celebrated for blurring the boundaries between high and low culture by making everyday objects seem beautiful and aspirational
It could be argued that printing was central to the way Warhol saw the world. The silkscreens and other media prints are the works Warhol is best know for, these Andy Warhol prints include such iconic images as Campbell’s Soup cans, dollar bills, Coca-Cola bottles, and the faces of celebrities. Still today, these massively recognizable images serve as a beacon of popular culture.
Throughout his career, Warhol produced nearly 800 printed images on paper, in addition to hundreds of trial proofs and unique variants of each of his portfolios. His work contributed significantly to what has been described as the ‘print boom’ of the 1960s, and Warhol later went on to set up his print-publishing company Factory Additions, which continued to issue portfolios of his most recognisable themes.
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