Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
iamjapanese: Andy Warhol（American, 1928-1987） Wicker Chair in Fire Island   1982 Unique Silver Gelatin Print
phillipsdepury: Andy Warhol’s Nine Gold Marilyns (Reversal Series), 1980, sold for $7,922,500 at the Contemporary Art Part I sale, 7 November 2011, New York. Nine Gold Marilyns (Reversal Series), 1980, represents a major turn and a seminal zenith in Warhol’s career. After he had spent his early years enshrining the photographic existence of Monroe and other celebrities, Warhol returned to the same subjects with a different technical approach and a nostalgic artistic mission. The Reversal Series began with an enormous collage of Warhol’s previous artistic subjects in his Retrospective paintings of 1979. Instead of utilizing the developed image that he originally took from magazines and production stills, Warhol employed the use of the negative for each. The resulting images appear the way we might see them when we quickly shut our eyes: saturation fills the space of the pictures’ shadows, and darkness becomes light. Both the frame and the ground of the image, once bright with the photographer’s original lighting, become their opposite. Warhol followed this singular collage in the coming years with single or multiple “reversals” of each image. Many of these paintings possess a canvas of animated coloring, with the silkscreen laid over top.But Nine Gold Marilyns (Reversal Series), 1980, entertains no such intrusions of the 1980s’ indulgences in overanimation. Instead, in its restrained and elegant gold, it draws upon a color that Warhol first utilized in the center of his soup cans. In its return to only a single color in order to illustrate a single unique image, the present lot is a pure demonstration of Warhol’s original silkscreening technique.
Six Handbags 1958 Andy Warhol
unrealityart: smpnr: themagiclantern: earlyfrost:charlottecorday:mrkiki: Andy WarholUNTITLED (EYE)ink and gouache on paper31.5 by 30.5 cm.; 12 3/8 by 12in.
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