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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) TWO MULTICOLORED MARILYNS inscribed and signed by Frederick Hughes

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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) TWO MULTICOLORED MARILYNS inscribed and signed by Frederick Hughes
ANDY WARHOL
(1928-1987)
TWO MULTICOLORED MARILYNS
inscribed and signed by Frederick Hughes "I certify that this is
an original painting by
Andy Warhol completed by
him in 1986 (c) Andy Warhol. Frederick W. Hughes"
on the reverse
acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
18 1/8 x 28 in. (46 x 71 cm)
executed 1979-1986
<p>Provenance
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, ZURICH
<p>Exhibited
HAMBURG, Deichtorhallen and Stuttgart, Wüerttembergischer Kunstverein, ANDY WARHOL-RETROSPEkTIV, July 2, 1993-February 6, 1994, p. 105 (illustrated)
In 1979, Andy Warhol started to work on a new group of paintings titled THE REVERSAL SERIES. This group of works included most of his famous subjects from the '60s and '70s and were printed in negative images.
By borrowing from his own catalogue of imagery and using it as the source material of his new paintings, he recontextualized them, thus becoming a forerunner of the post-modernist movement that started around the same time. His appropriation of his own imagery in this series is very much in keeping with the then current post-modernist aesthetic that deliberately appropriated the style and imagery of past art historical movements. Warhol is going further than the new generation of artists in reexploring the potential of his own earlier iconic work turning it into something new and different.
Of all the Reversal paintings, the MARILYNS have the most resonance and provide the most haunting and iconic imagery, an instantly recognizable
logo of Warhol's art. Between 1979 and 1986, the artist painted only FOUR DOUBLE MARILYNS (three in horizontal and one in vertical format), all in very different colors.
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