The name of American artist Andy Warhol is all but synonymous with Pop art, the movement he helped shape in the 1960s. He was phenomenally prolific, and the archive of original photography, prints, drawings, paintings and other art that he left behind is beyond vast.
Andy Warhol is known for his clever appropriation of motifs and images from popular advertising and commercials, which he integrated into graphic, vibrant works that utilized mass-production technologies such as printmaking, photography and silkscreening. Later in his career, Warhol expanded his oeuvre to include other forms of media, founding Interview magazine and producing fashion shoots and films on-site at the Factory, his world-famous studio in New York.
Born and educated in in Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 and built a successful career as a commercial illustrator. Although he made whimsical drawings as a hobby during these years, his career as a fine artist began in the mid-1950s with ink-blot drawings and hand-drawn silkscreens. The 1955 lithograph You Can Lead a Shoe to Water illustrates how he incorporated in his artwork advertising styles and techniques, in this case shoe commercials.
As a child, Warhol was often sick and spent much of his time in bed, where he would make sketches and put together collections of movie-star photographs. He described this period as formative in terms of his skills and interests. Indeed, Warhol remained obsessed with celebrities throughout his career, often producing series devoted to a famous face or an object from the popular culture, such as Chairman Mao or Campbell’s tomato soup. The 1967 silkscreen Marilyn 25 embodies his love of bright color and famous subjects.
Warhol was a prominent cultural figure in New York during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The Factory was a gathering place for the era’s celebrities, writers, drag queens and fellow artists, and collaboration was common. To this day, Warhol remains one of the most important artists of the 20th century and continues to exert influence on contemporary creators.
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Original Abstract Elephant Graphite Drawing Ex-Christies
By Andy Warhol
Located in Portland, OR
An original graphite on paper drawing titled "Elephant" by renowned Pop Artist, Andy Warhol 1955. The drawing depicts an elephant drawn freely and with a feeling of forward movement...
Paper, Graphite
$6,500
H 8.75 in W 11.5 in
'Cowboy, El Cajon, California', Horse, Equestrian, American West, Cattle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Olaf Wieghorst' (American, 1899-1988) with dedication, 'To Herb with best wishes. El Cajon, 1959' Born in Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was the son of a photographe...
Paper, Graphite
$55,000
H 16.25 in W 13.25 in D 1 in
"Singes (Monkeys)" 1881 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Watercolor & Graphite Study
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Yardley, PA
About this work: Before he became the celebrated chronicler of Montmartre’s nightlife, Lautrec was surrounded by a different kind of spectacle. At his family’s estates, the young art...
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Umbilical Filigree Ovum (drawing), India Ink on Paper
By Hunter Stabler
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original India ink, graphite, chalk, and pen on paper drawing by Hunter Stabler measuring 14.25”h x 20.25”w framed. The piece ships in the pictured frame. Hunter Stable...
Paper, Chalk, India Ink, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
$2,226
H 16.62 in W 11.7 in
David Truman, Puffins, Original Animal Drawing, Bempton Cliffs Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Puffins [2016] Original Landscapes and seascapes Graphite on paper Image size: H:42.2 cm x W:29.7 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42.2 cm x W:29.7 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Puffins, A study of Puffins on a rocky outcrop at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire. Original photographs taken by myself. David Truman...
Paper, Graphite
$5,500
H 24 in W 30 in
Transformed - Swan in Graphite on Antique Vellum Architectural Drawing
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Vellum, Graphite
$5,500
H 24 in W 30 in
Solid Footings - Graphite Drawing on Antique Architectural Drawings of Bears
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Vellum, Graphite
$1,000
H 11 in Dm 11 in
Hummingbird Augury: Cobalt Blue Pastel Drawing on Handmade Paper w/ Gold Stars
By Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick
Located in Hudson, NY
Hummingbird Augury (Circular Cobalt Blue Pastel Drawing of Golden Hummingbird and Stars on Indian Handmade Cotton Paper by Kahn & Selesnick) 11 inch diameter unframed pastel, conte c...
Crayon, Pastel, Handmade Paper, Graphite
The Theatre
By Marc Swanson
Located in Houston, TX
Marc Swanson The Theatre, 2017 graphite and collage on paper 17 x 14 in (43.2 x 35.6 cm) paper size 24 7/8 x 21 7/8 x 1 1/2 in (63.2 x 55.6 x 3.8 cm) frame size The duality betwee...
Archival Paper, Graphite
Whispers & Hisses Series: 'In Panic'
By Winifred McNeill
Located in New York, NY
This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable. This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss. Winifred McNeill...
Gold Leaf
$5,500
H 24 in W 30 in
Jobsite - Moose in Graphite on Antique Vellum Architectural Drawing
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Vellum, Graphite
Academic Study of a Horse’s Head, Graphite on Paper, Mid-19th Century
Located in Firenze, IT
Academic Study of a Horse’s Head, 59 × 43 cm Mid-19th century Graphite on watermarked paper “D. I. Calamari” An academic study of a horse’s head, drawn as part of mid-19th-century t...
Paper, Graphite
$5,500
H 24 in W 30 in
Sentinel - Mountain Lions in Graphite on Antique Vellum Architectural Drawing
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Vellum, Graphite
Sold
H 36.63 in W 45.13 in D 1.25 in
Komodo Monitor, Vanishing Animals By Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andy Warhol 1928-1987 American Komodo Monitor, from the Vanishing Animals series Features authenticating stamp of the Andy Warhol Estate (en verso...
Synthetic, Paper, Polymer
Sold
H 14.77 in W 11.62 in D 1.58 in
Pink 'Sam Sam' from 25 Cats... Hand-Coloured lithograph with signed frontispiece
By Andy Warhol
Located in Cotignac, FR
Andy Warhol limited edition hand-coloured offset lithograph of pink 'Sam Sam' mother and kitten, 1954, with in addition, rare signed frontispiece showing copy 69 of 190. (Feldman Schellmann iv. 55) Provenance: Milt Weiner, New York, from the artist. His sale Christies, New York, October 2013 part of lot 447. Sims Reed Gallery, London. Acquired from them, to present, Grosvenor Family Collection. In the 1950s, long before he had invented himself as pop art’s pioneer, Andy Warhol was making ends meet by working as a freelance children’s book illustrator for Doubleday. Still, he was unable to escape poverty. When his mother, Julia Warhola — an artist herself and one of history’s unsung champions behind creative icons — found out about her son’s destitute conditions in 1952, she boarded a bus from Pittsburgh to New York and moved into Andy’s tiny apartment on East 75th Street, intent on taking care of him and helping him get by. The two shared a love of cats so strong that their squalid home was populated by a multitude of felines, all but one named Sam; the sole outlier, Julia’s most beloved companion, was named Hester. But in addition to cat-rearing, the mother-son cohabitation inevitably led to a series of creative collaborations and an adventure of self-publishing. Warhol created colourful lithographs of the felines in his spare time and in 1954, Andy and Julia released a limited-edition artist’s book ungrammatically titled '25 Cats Name Sam...
Paper, Printer's Ink, Watercolor
Bald Eagle
By Andy Warhol
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Warhol, Andy Title: Bald Eagle Date: 1983 Medium: Graphite on paper Unframed Dimensions: 31.5" x 23.25" Framed Dimensions: 34.25" x 26.5"...
Graphite
Andy Warhol was a Pop artist.