Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964, sold for $8,146,500 at the Contemporary Art Part I sale, 12 May 2011, New York.
Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964 was produced during what was arguably the most significant time period of the artist’s career. Though Warhol had already experienced a great deal of success with his images of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Liz, Marilyn and Elvis, the year 1964 saw his dramatic and meteoric rise to fame. To round off an outstanding season, Leo Castelli scheduled a Warhol show to take place at his gallery from November to December of that year featuring the artist’s new Flowers paintings. The source of the image Warhol appropriated for this series first appeared in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography, a photograph of hibiscus blossoms illustrating an article about color processing. Following the show at Castelli Gallery, critic David Bourdon described Warhol’s Flowers as “…cut out gouaches by Matisse set adrift on Monet’s lily pond” (The Village Voice, December 3, 1964). The color scheme is also highly evocative of Van Gogh’s Irises.
Culling inspiration from a seemingly banal source, using a lithographic process, Warhol produced only two or three basic designs in a variety of color schemes, each in a square format. The artist found this format particularly satisfying because its regular shape allowed these paintings to be hung with any side up. As Warhol himself explained, “I like painting on a square…because you don’t have to decide whether it should be longerlonger or shorter-shorter or longer-shorter: it’s just a square” (D. Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, p. 191).
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![Andy Warhol’s (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) homeroom class at Schenley High School, 1945. Warhol is fourth from the left in the back row. [The Warhol Museum]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztg6zJuvU1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Andy Warhol’s (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) homeroom class at Schenley High School, 1945. Warhol is fourth from the left in the back row. [The Warhol Museum]
![Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), age 22. “Making the Rounds,” 1950 [The Warhol Museum]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz33pzAnH41qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), age 22. “Making the Rounds,” 1950 [The Warhol Museum]
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On This Day in Pittsburgh History: August 6, 1928
Andrew Warhola is born in Pittsburgh.
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biographical information
my life couldn’t fill a penny postcard
i was born in pittsburgh in 1928 (like everyone else - in a steel mill)
i graduated from Carnegie Tech
now i’m in NY city moving from one roach infested apartment to another.
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Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964, sold for $8,146,500 at the Contemporary Art Part I sale, 12 May 2011, New York.
Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964 was produced during what was arguably the most significant time period of the artist’s career. Though Warhol had already experienced a great deal of success with his images of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Liz, Marilyn and Elvis, the year 1964 saw his dramatic and meteoric rise to fame. To round off an outstanding season, Leo Castelli scheduled a Warhol show to take place at his gallery from November to December of that year featuring the artist’s new Flowers paintings. The source of the image Warhol appropriated for this series first appeared in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography, a photograph of hibiscus blossoms illustrating an article about color processing. Following the show at Castelli Gallery, critic David Bourdon described Warhol’s Flowers as “…cut out gouaches by Matisse set adrift on Monet’s lily pond” (The Village Voice, December 3, 1964). The color scheme is also highly evocative of Van Gogh’s Irises.
Culling inspiration from a seemingly banal source, using a lithographic process, Warhol produced only two or three basic designs in a variety of color schemes, each in a square format. The artist found this format particularly satisfying because its regular shape allowed these paintings to be hung with any side up. As Warhol himself explained, “I like painting on a square…because you don’t have to decide whether it should be longerlonger or shorter-shorter or longer-shorter: it’s just a square” (D. Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, p. 191).
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Andy Warhol’s (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) homeroom class at Schenley High School, 1945. Warhol is fourth from the left in the back row. [The Warhol Museum]
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), age 22. “Making the Rounds,” 1950 [The Warhol Museum]
Andy Warhol as a youth (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: August 6, 1928
Andrew Warhola is born in Pittsburgh.
Hello mr lynes
thank you very much
biographical information
my life couldn’t fill a penny postcard
i was born in pittsburgh in 1928 (like everyone else - in a steel mill)
i graduated from Carnegie Tech
now i’m in NY city moving from one roach infested apartment to another.
andy warhol(via ninr)
