The One Place Where $9 Is Worth A Lot

ANDY WARHOL, $ 9, 1982, © Andy Warhol 1982

Unique Screenprint on Board 40 x 32 x 2 inches

Andrew Warhola, or Andy Warhol to his friends, was an American pop artist, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, commercial illustrator, author and all-around fun guy. Born in Pittsburgh, his father worked in a coal mine, while he went on to study commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-Mellon).  During the 1950's RCA Records hired him to design album covers, but during the 60's he came into his own, founding "The Factory" and helping to define, reflect and influence American Pop Culture on silkscreen, film, airwaves or any other medium at hand. 

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

Andy Warhol

He was praised and hounded by critics, shot by a crazed fan, a regular at Studio 54, a volunteer at homeless shelters, an openly gay practicing Byzantine Catholic and died in his sleep before he turned 60. Artnet is offering one of his works at an auction ending July 23, 2008 at 2 PM EST with an estimate somewhere in the $180-250k range.  [Place Bid]

Edie Sedgwick "Warhol's Superstar"