Vente: 425 / Post War / Contemporary Art 12/13. juin 2015 à Munich Lot 884

 

884
Andy Warhol
Goethe, 1982.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimation:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Résultat:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

( frais d'adjudication compris)
Goethe. 1982.
Silkscreen in colors.
Feldmann/Schellmann/Defendi II.272. Signed, numbered and inscribed 'HC'. From an edition of three Roman numbered hors commerce editions aside from the edition of 100. On Lenox museum board. 96.4 x 96.2 cm (37.9 x 37.8 in), the full sheet.
Sheet 3 from the portfolio fo a total of 4 silkscreens in colors. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York (with blindstamp). Published by Editionen Schellmann & Klüser, Munich/New York in cooperation with Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (verso with copyright stamp). [KP].

LITERATURE: Forty are better than one. Edition Schellmann 1969-2009, published by Jörg Schellmann, Ostfildern 2009, pp. 342-343.

Within the field of graphic art, which occupies the largest part of Warhol's oeuvre, the model plays a decisive role. This color silkscreen is the first in a series of works for which an artwork of historic relevance is used as reference. For "Goethe" Warhol isolated a section of the presumably most famous Goethe portrait which Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein painted in 1787. Today it is in possession of the Frankfurt Städel Museum. Even though Warhol referenced a traditional subject in this work, further levels of meaning are addressed, by choosing Goethe and the incunabula of Goethe portraits, he chose a work deeply rooted in the history of German literature and in the "German soul". Despite using an entirely different content and motif, Warhol tied in with the series "Myths" that he had made a year earlier and which itemized American heroes like Mickey Mouse, Uncle Sam, Santa Claus and Warhol himself. Once more it shows that pop-art is not just some kind of loud and lurid aspect of consumer culture but a critical reflection of the society it roots in.



884
Andy Warhol
Goethe, 1982.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimation:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Résultat:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

( frais d'adjudication compris)