Re: Warhol's 'Mao' sells for $17.4 million
Robin
and have in my house.
http://photofiddle.com/view_for_friend.php?num=179996&str=P2OQFA93E94191J4QM270P8Z9A254BWU
edonline wrote:
> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/16027946.htm
>
> Posted on Thu, Nov. 16, 2006
>
> Warhol's 'Mao' sells for $17.4 million
>
> Associated Press
>
> NEW YORK - Andy Warhol's iconic image of Communist Party Chairman Mao
> Zedong, considered one of his most sensational pieces of the 1970s,
> sold for $17.4 million, a world auction record for the artist,
> Christie's auction house said.
>
> The portrait was offered by the Swiss-based Daros Collection, owner of
> one of the greatest private holdings of Warhol paintings, and was sold
> Wednesday to Joseph Lau of Hong Kong. It brought in about $5 million
> more than expected, Christie's said.
>
> The silk-screen portrait, measuring 81 inches by 61 inches and showing
> Mao in a dark blue jacket against a light blue background, was part of
> the auction house's evening sale of postwar and contemporary art.
>
> Warhol's 1962 work, "Orange Marilyn," went for $16.2 million, about $1
> million over estimate. "Sixteen Jackies," from 1964, sold for $15.6
> million, which was expected.
>
> The Daros Collection, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is known to focus
> on a small group of artists including Cy Twombly, Brice Marden, Agnes
> Martin and Warhol. Its Warhol collection includes "210 Coke Bottles,"
> "Blue Liz as Cleopatra" and "AtomicBomb."
>
> Christie's said the board of the Daros Collection was selling the
> "Mao" painting "to raise proceeds for future acquisition of prime
> works from the 1960s."
>
> "Herr Heyde," by German artist Gerhard Richter, sold for $2.8 million.
>
> The largest sale of the evening was an abstract 1977 painting by
> Willem de Kooning, called "Untitled XXV." It sold for $27 million, a
> world auction record for postwar art, Christie's said. The buyer's
> name was not released.
>
> The previous postwar record-holder was David Smith's "Cubi XXVIII,"
> which sold for $23.8 million at Sotheby's in 2005. The previous Warhol
> record-holder was another "Orange Marilyn," which was auctioned for
> $17.3 million by Sotheby's in 1998.
>
> Wednesday's auction prices include commissions of 20 percent of the
> first $200,000 and 12 percent thereafter.
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"Robin" <inu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I know this is not an original Wharol but it is something I have made
> and have in my house.
Who is Wharol?
Agent Smith
edonline <edonlineSPAMOUT!@comcast.net> wrote in
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It is strange that Warhol made more than one "Orange Marilyn," but
consistent with Robin's (inu2nm's) joke, or delusion, about being a forger
who produces them in her living room. I googled images of Warhol's "Mao,"
and it looks like he did several single faces in different, fluorescent
color schemes, as well as the more familiar array of fluorescent faces. He
seems to have gotten his crushing grip around the throat of single idea and
then strangled it to death.
His Marilyn, Jackie Kennedy and Mao paintings are all made up of
rectilinear arrays of identical faces, each done up in a different palette
of incorrect colors, to give them a fluorescent look. I have a bunch of
loose sheets of identical pieces of b&w comic art that I colored with
different schemes. I could probably copy this idea fairly quickly, without
faces of course, and using Brunner's "Alice in Wonderland," as a substrate.
Maybe I'll give it a shot.