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Andy Warhol

1928–1987

Little Red Book #257 1972
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Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, producer, and leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame".

In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement. In June 1968, he was almost killed by radical feminist Valerie Solanas, who shot him inside his studio. After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58 in New York City.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Warhol has been described as the "bellwether of the art market". Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. His works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. In 2013, a 1963 serigraph titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold for $105 million. In 2022, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, which is the most expensive work of art sold at auction by an American artist.

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Artworks

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  • Andy Warhol Man Ray

    1974
  • Andy Warhol Gilbert and George

    1975
  • Andy Warhol Alexandre Iolas

    1972
  • Andy Warhol Gun

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Robert Mapplethorpe

    1983
  • Andy Warhol Hamburger

    1985–6
    On display at Tate Modern part of Level 4: Joiner Galleries
  • Andy Warhol Repent and Sin No More!

    1985–6
  • Andy Warhol Map of Eastern U.S.S.R. Missile Bases

    c.1985–6
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Artist as subject

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  • Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol

    1986
  • Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol

    1983
  • Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol

    1983, printed 1990
  • Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol

    1986, printed 1990
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait

    1976–86
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait in Dark Suit

    1977–8
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait in Interview T-shirt

    1977–8
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait in Blue Shirt

    1977–8
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Hand to Cheek

    1977–8
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait in Dark Suit and Plaid Shirt

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait in a Dark Suit and Plaid Shirt

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Platinum Bouffant Wig

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Reddish Blonde Wig

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Platinum Pageboy Wig

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait in Profile with Shadow

    1981
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Fright Wig

    1986
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Fright Wig

    1986
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Fright Wig

    1986
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Fright Wig

    1986
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait

    1978
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait Strangulation

    1978
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait with Skull

    1978
  • Associated with Joseph Beuys, associated with Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Joseph Beuys, Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, April 1980

    1980
  • Conrad Atkinson Thanx Andy

    1987
  • Richard Avedon Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory, 30 October 1969

    1969
  • Thomas Kilpper The Ring: Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat Boxing

    2000
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait

    1967
  • Andy Warhol Self-Portrait

    1986

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    The Art of Persona

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    How to Print like Warhol

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    What Was Andy Warhol Thinking?

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    Andy Warhol's Mother

    Gilda Williams

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    Me and Andy Warhol... and Ronald Reagan

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    Andy Warhol Now

    Alison M. Gingeras

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