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ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987) UNTITLED Estate of Andy Warhol authenticity stamp signed by ex...

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ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987) UNTITLED Estate of Andy Warhol authenticity stamp signed by ex...
ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987) UNTITLED Estate of Andy Warhol authenticity stamp signed by executor, Frederick Hughes, in pencil on verso four stitched gelatin silver prints hinged to black board overall: 21 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (54.6 x 69.9 cm) each: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) 1976-1986 PROVENANCE Robert Miller Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, CARACAS EXHIBITED CARACAS , Museo Sacro de Caracas, LOS REGALOS QUE NUNCA TE DI, June 28-August 2, 1998 The Warhol Factory explored the idea and the aesthetic of repetitive imagery, cranking out multiples in a machine-like manner. Warhol also used his camera to generate repetitive photographs of a single image and stitched them together with a sewing machine. By repeating a dizzying pattern (see Lot 158) of loveseat fabric and a composition of hanging ties, Warhol forces the eye away from the center towards the perimeters, "urging one to take a step or two back, then forward again, then back, unlike a single image which tends to simply draw one in" (Tim Hunt, ANDY WARHOL: STITCHED PHOTOGRAPHS, New York, 1999, p. 5). On the replications employed in Warhol's stitched photographs, Stephen Koch wrote, "The device represents ...something that functions as Warhol's own plain, homegrown, mechanistically performed equivalent of cubism....Like cubism, this replication is the way in which Warhol asserts, for his own ends, one of the essential formal questions of all visual art, which is what it means to see in part and what it means to see whole" (ANDY WARHOL PHOTOGRAPHS, New York, 1986, p. 2).
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