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57-570: Several of Andy Warhol 's earliest exhibitions in New York were at the Bodley during the 1950s, starting with two in 1956. Max Ernst had a major solo exhibition at the Bodley Gallery in 1961, after his works were exhibited with those of Yves Tanguy in a 1960 Bodley Gallery show. Also in 1960, Roberto Matta had a solo show at the Bodley, entitled "Matta, from 1942 to 1957". Other artists who exhibited at

114-432: A $ 12 paper shopping bag—plain white with a red Campbell's soup can. His painting of a can of a Campbell's soup cost $ 1,500 while each autographed can sold for three for $ 18, $ 6.50 each. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both pop art and the perennial question of what art is. Warhol used assistants to increase his productivity and these collaborations would remain

171-532: A 1958 design for a book cover he submitted to Simon and Schuster for the Walter Ross pulp novel The Immortal , and later used others for his series of paintings. With the rapid expansion of the record industry , RCA Records hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album covers and promotional materials. As a commercial artist, Warhol worked with high-end advertising clients such as Tiffany & Co. In 1961 Warhol purchased

228-399: A 1970 show including works of René Magritte . A 1971 exhibition entitled "Modern Master Drawings" included works by Paul Klee , Fernand Léger , Matisse , and Picasso . The Bodley exhibition record shows a general preponderance of surrealists (including Jorge Noceda Sanchez ). Apparently David Mann was not the first director of the Bodley Gallery, which seems to have existed already in

285-416: A Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial design in 1949. Later that year, he moved to New York City and began a career in magazine illustration and advertising. Warhol's early career was dedicated to commercial and advertising art, where his first commission had been to draw shoes for Glamour magazine in 1949. In the 1950s, Warhol worked as a designer for shoe manufacturer Israel Miller. While working in

342-509: A Brooks Brothers shirt and tie, DeNoyer blazer, and Levi jeans. As Warhol continued to forge into filmmaking, he had established himself as "one of the most celebrated and well-known pop art figures to emerge from the sixties." The Pasadena Art Museum in Pasadena organized a major retrospective of his work in 1970, which traveled in the United States and abroad. In 1971, the exhibition

399-558: A defining (and controversial) aspect of his working methods throughout his career. One of the most important collaborators during this period was Gerard Malanga . Malanga assisted the artist with the production of silkscreens, films, sculptures and other works at The Factory, Warhol's aluminum foil -and-silver-paint-lined studio on 47th Street. Other members of Warhol's Factory crowd included Freddie Herko , Ondine , Ronald Tavel , Mary Woronov , Billy Name , and Brigid Berlin . In November 1964, Warhol's first Flowers series exhibited at

456-613: A marginal figure in the Factory scene before to the shooting. She authored the SCUM Manifesto , a separatist feminist tract that advocated the elimination of men; and appeared in the Warhol film I, a Man (1967). Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital later the same day. Warhol was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived and remained in the hospital for nearly two months. Solanas turned herself into

513-500: A profound effect on Warhol's life and art. He had physical effects for the rest of his life, including being required to wear a surgical corset . The Factory became more regulated and Warhol focused on making it a business enterprise. He credited his collaborator Paul Morrissey with transforming the Factory into a "regular office." In September 1968, Warhol hosted a party at the Factory for Nico 's album The Marble Index . Warhol and his superstars Viva and Ultra Violet appeared on

570-568: A series of Elizabeth Taylor portraits, were shown at his second exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Later that year, Warhol relocated his studio to East 47th Street, which would turn into The Factory . The Factory became a popular gathering spot for a wide range of artists, writers, musicians and underground celebrities. Warhol had his second exhibition at the Stable Gallery in

627-459: A successful children's book illustrator. Warhol had an older sister, Maria, who died in infancy in Austria-Hungary. In third grade, Warhol had Sydenham's chorea (also known as St. Vitus' Dance), the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever which causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. At times when he

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684-418: A temperament of its own, a sort of sly, Toulouse-Lautrec kind of sophistication, but the shape and the style came through accurately and the buckle was always in the right place. The kids in the apartment [which Andy shared in New York – note by Coplans] noticed that the vamps on Andy's shoe drawings kept getting longer and longer but [Israel] Miller didn't mind. Miller loved them." In 1952, Alexander Iolas

741-691: A townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue in Carnegie Hill , which he also used as his art studio. In 1962, Warhol was taught silkscreen printmaking techniques by Max Arthur Cohn at his graphic arts business in Manhattan. In his book Popism: The Warhol Sixties , Warhol writes: "When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something". In May 1962, Warhol was featured in an article in Time with his painting Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable) (1962), which initiated his most sustained motif,

798-413: A well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens , playwrights, bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons. He directed and produced several underground films starring a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars , and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression " 15 minutes of fame ." Warhol managed and produced

855-429: Is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe . The monumental work is one of the artist's most noted of the movie star. The painting consists of 50 images. Each image of the actress is taken from the single publicity photograph from the film Niagara (1953). The underlying publicity photograph that Warhol used as a basis for his many paintings and prints of Marilyn, and

912-419: Is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. 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, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962),

969-599: Is credited as discovering Andy Warhol, and he organized first solo show at the Hugo Gallery in New York. Although that show was not well received, by 1956 Warhol was included in his first group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , New York. In 1956, Warhol traveled around the world with his friend, production designer Charles Lisanby, studying art and culture in several countries. Warhol's "whimsical" ink drawings of shoe advertisements figured in some of his earliest showings at

1026-481: The Bodley Gallery in New York in 1957. Warhol habitually used the expedient of tracing photographs projected with an epidiascope . Using prints by Edward Wallowitch , his "first boyfriend", the photographs would undergo a subtle transformation during Warhol's often cursory tracing of contours and hatching of shadows. Warhol used Wallowitch's photograph Young Man Smoking a Cigarette ( c.  1956 ) for

1083-702: The Campbell's soup can. That painting became Warhol's first to be shown in a museum when it was exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford in July 1962. On July 9, 1962, Warhol's exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles with Campbell's Soup Cans , marking his West Coast debut of pop art . In November 1962, Warhol had an exhibition at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York. The exhibit included

1140-513: The Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he studied commercial art . During his time there, Warhol joined the campus Modern Dance Club and Beaux Arts Society. He also served as art director of the student art magazine, Cano , illustrating a cover in 1948 and a full-page interior illustration in 1949. These are believed to be his first two published artworks. Warhol earned

1197-517: The Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. In May 1965, his second Flowers series, which had more sizes and color variation that the previous, was shown at Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris. During this trip Warhol announced that he was retiring from art to focus on film. From the 1960s to the 1970s, Warhol also groomed a retinue of bohemian and counterculture eccentrics upon whom he bestowed

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1254-563: The Marilyn Diptych , was owned and distributed by her movie studio. Marilyn Diptych was completed just weeks after Marilyn Monroe 's death in August 1962. Silk-screening was the technique used to create this painting. The twenty-five images on the left are painted in color, the right side is black and white. The Marilyn Diptych is in the collection of the Tate . It has been suggested that

1311-658: The Shah of Iran , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , at the White House . In 1975, Warhol published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) . In September 1975, he went on an eight-city U.S. book tour, followed by stops in Italy, France, and England. In 1976, Warhol and painter Jamie Wyeth were commissioned to paint each other's portraits by the Coe Kerr Gallery in Manhattan. In January 1977, Warhol traveled to Kuwait for

1368-786: The experimental rock band the Velvet Underground . After surviving an assassination attempt by radical feminist Valerie Solanas in June 1968, Warhol focused on transforming The Factory into a business enterprise. He founded Interview magazine and authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) and Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980). He also hosted the television series Fashion (1979–80), Andy Warhol's TV (1980–83), and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (1985–87). Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia , aged 58, after gallbladder surgery in February 1987. Warhol has been

1425-682: The most expensive paintings ever sold . In 2013, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963) sold for $ 105 million, setting a record for the artist. In 2022, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $ 195 million, which is the highest price paid at auction for a work by an American artist. Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola Sr.; 1889–1942) and Julia Warhola ( née Zavacká, 1891–1972). His parents were working-class Rusyn emigrants from Mikó , Austria-Hungary (now called Miková, located in today's northeastern Slovakia ). Warhol's father emigrated to

1482-408: The 1960s, revealing Warhol's connections to a diverse range of artistic scenes during this time. Less well known was his support and collaboration with several teenagers during this era, who would achieve prominence later in life, including writer David Dalton , photographer Stephen Shore and artist Bibbe Hansen (mother of pop musician Beck ). The experimental rock group The Velvet Underground

1539-557: The April 1964 issue of Art in America gives this address). This put it in an even more exclusive section of the Upper East Side, at Madison and 67th Street. That is now the address of Jacadi, which sells upscale children's clothing. A third address, 1063 Madison Avenue (at 80th Street), seems to have been in effect by about 1975, if not earlier (but no earlier than 1967). 1063 Madison is now

1596-559: The Arts : "Although some of Warhol’s work was commissioned by individuals or companies, much of it was appropriated from other artists, photographers, and brands. Two of his most famous pieces, Marilyn Diptych and the collection of Campbell’s soup cans, are examples of his habit of appropriation. For the Marilyn series, Warhol took a promotional photograph of Marilyn Monroe and transferred it onto silkscreen print using different colors. He did not own

1653-527: The Bodley under Mann's directorship include Victor Brauner , Charles Bunnell , Clarence Holbrook Carter , Thomas Chimes , Louis Delsarte , Jane Frank , Charlotte Gilbertson , Eugenio Granell , Shirley Hendrick, Hank Laventhol , Mina Loy , Larry Rivers , Onni Saari, Ethel Schwabacher , Bettina Shaw-Lawrence , Thomas Sills , and Ahmed Yacoubi . Although the gallery emphasized the work of living artists, exhibits were not limited to such works—as evidenced by its showing of paintings by Tanguy in 1960, and

1710-580: The Mao portraits were installed at the Musée Galliera in Paris. Warhol was visiting Europe more often in the early 1970s. He had a fondness for Paris, and by 1973 he had purchased an apartment on rue du Cherche-Midi on Paris' Left Bank . In 1974, Warhol and Johnson moved from his home on Lexington Avenue to a townhouse at 57 East 66th Street in Manhattan's Lenox Hill neighborhood. In May 1975, Warhol attended President Gerald Ford 's state dinner in honor of

1767-462: The United States in 1912 and worked in a coal mine. His wife joined him in Pittsburgh in 1921. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. They were Ruthenian Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church . Warhol had two elder brothers—Paul (1922–2014) and John (1925–2010). Paul's son, James Warhola , became

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1824-417: The address of a women's fashion boutique called Agnes B. 40°45′43″N 73°57′54″W  /  40.76191°N 73.96491°W  / 40.76191; -73.96491 Andy Warhol Andy Warhol ( / ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l / ; born Andrew Warhola Jr. ; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol

1881-569: The basis for his silkscreen portraits when he resumed painting in the 1970s. In late 1969, Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock founded Interview magazine. Compared to the success and scandal of Warhol's work in the 1960s, the early 1970s were much quieter years, as he became more entrepreneurial. He was generally regarded as quiet, shy and a meticulous observer. Art critic Robert Hughes called him "the white mole of Union Square ". His fashion evolved from what Warhol called his "leather look" to his " Brook Brothers look," which included

1938-644: The cover of the November 10, 1968, issue of The New York Times Magazine . In 1969, Warhol and his entourage traveled to Los Angeles to discuss a prospective movie deal with Columbia Pictures . Warhol, who has always had an interest in photography, used a Polaroid camera to document his recuperation after the shooting. In 1969, some of his photographs were published in Esquire magazine. He would become well known for always carrying his Polaroid camera to chronicle his encounters. Eventually, he used instant photography as

1995-471: The designation " superstars ", including Edie Sedgwick , Nico , International Velvet , Viva , Ultra Violet , Joe Dallesandro , Candy Darling , Holly Woodlawn , Jackie Curtis and Jane Forth . These people all participated in the Factory films, and some—like Berlin—remained friends with Warhol until his death. Important figures in the New York underground art/cinema world, such as writer John Giorno and filmmaker Jack Smith , also appear in Warhol films of

2052-553: The experimental film 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 in the 1950s. After exhibiting his work in art galleries , he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist in the 1960s. His New York studio, The Factory , became

2109-553: The film was too long, there were technical problems." In 1967, Warhol established Factory Additions for his printmaking and publishing enterprise. In February 1968, Warhol's first solo museum exhibition was mounted at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. 1968 assassination attempt On June 3, 1968, radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and Mario Amaya , art critic and curator, at The Factory. Solanas had been

2166-554: The late 1940s. According to at least one source, Mann was still director of the Bodley as late as 1981. According to many sources (including warholstars.com and the 1961 Max Ernst exhibition catalogue listed below), the Bodley Gallery was located (through the 1950s and until at least November 1963, according to the catalogue for a 1963 Jane Frank show) at 223 East 60th Street, in Manhattan 's wealthy Upper East Side neighborhood. This would place it between Second and Third Avenues. Presently

2223-426: The main house on the property in 1972. Lee Radziwill , Jackie Kennedy , The Rolling Stones , Elizabeth Taylor , Halston , and John Lennon were among the estate's notable guests. Although Warhol was considered to be apolitical, he participated in an exhibition with the poster Vote McGovern (1972) in effort to raise funds for George McGovern 's 1972 presidential campaign . In October 1972, Warhol's work

2280-576: The opening of his exhibition at the Dhaiat Abdulla Al Salem Gallery. In June 1977, Warhol was invited to a special reception honoring the "Inaugural Artists" who had contributed prints to the Jimmy Carter presidential campaign . In 1977, Warhol was commissioned by art collector Richard Weisman to create Athletes , ten portraits consisting of the leading athletes of the day. Marilyn Diptych The Marilyn Diptych ( 1962 )

2337-628: The owners of the source material. An example of this is Warhol's Marilyn series including the Marilyn Diptych , which resulted in a settlement with the owner of the Marilyn Monroe publicity photograph which he used as the source material for the paintings. Warhol and his estate have settled many copyright disputes including with regard to his famous flowers paintings and paintings of Jackie Kennedy, as discussed in detail in "Andy The Appropriator: The Copyright Battles You Won't Hear About at The Whitney's Warhol Exhibit" from The Columbia Journal of Law &

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2394-476: The painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others. The artwork was also ranked ninth in the past 1,000 years by Kathleen Davenport, Director, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston. Warhol is regarded as an artist known for the appropriation of images and he often made use of publicity photographs and publicly available photographs and motifs not owned by him, which often brought him into conflict with

2451-545: The police a few hours after the attack and said that Warhol "had too much control over my life." She was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and eventually sentenced to three years in prison. Jed Johnson , one of the helpers at the Factory, had been a witness to the shooting. During Warhol's hospitalization, Johnson visited him regularly and they developed a deep relationship. Subsequently, Johnson moved in with Warhol to help him recuperate and care for his mother Julia Warhola. The assassination attempt had

2508-463: The promotional photograph that he used and he did not have permission to use it. The resulting work was transformative enough that a strong fair use argument could be made today, but Warhol’s appropriation is undeniable. Similarly, Warhol used the Campbell’s Soup logo without permission from the company for dozens of silkscreen prints. Eventually, Campbell’s Soup tacitly approved of his use because of

2565-539: The relation between the left side of the canvas and the right side of the canvas is evocative of the relation between the celebrity's life and death. The work has received praise from writers such as American academic and cultural critic Camille Paglia , who wrote in 2012's Glittering Images lauding how it shows the "multiplicity of meanings" in Monroe's life and legacy. In a December 2, 2004, article in The Guardian ,

2622-439: The shoe industry, Warhol developed his "blotted line" technique, applying ink to paper and then blotting the ink while still wet, which was akin to a printmaking process on the most rudimentary scale. His use of tracing paper and ink allowed him to repeat the basic image and also to create endless variations on the theme. American photographer John Coplans recalled that "nobody drew shoes the way Andy did. He somehow gave each shoe

2679-436: The size of the box. A pivotal event was The American Supermarket exhibition at Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery in late 1964. The show was presented as a typical small supermarket environment, except that everything in it—from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc.—was created by prominent pop artists of the time, among them sculptor Claes Oldenburg , Mary Inman and Bob Watts . Warhol designed

2736-439: The spring of 1964, which featured sculptures of commercial boxes stacked and scattered throughout the space to resemble a warehouse. For the exhibition, Warhol custom ordered wooden boxes and silkscreened graphics onto them. The sculptures— Brillo Box , Del Monte Peach Box , Heinz Tomato Ketchup Box , Kellogg's Cornflakes Box , Campbell's Tomato Juice Box and Mott's Apple Juice Box —sold for $ 200 to $ 400 depending on

2793-437: The storefront is occupied by Dejavu Boutique & Gallery, a luxury fashion boutique selling mostly European clothing. To acknowledge the building's past, the boutique preserved the 2nd floor of the space as an Art Gallery to showcase artwork by established artists and the interior is lined with décor by Mackenzie-Childs. As of no later than April 1964, the Bodley Gallery had relocated to 787 Madison Avenue (an ad on page 15 of

2850-484: The studio, parties, restaurants, and on trips to Europe. He created portraits of Archie, Johnson and Amos, a second dachshund they got a few years later. Between 1972 and 1973, Warhol created a series of portraits of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong with funding from two New York galleries, Knoedler & Co. and the Leo Castelli Gallery, as well as art collector Peter Brant . In February 1974, some of

2907-433: The subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions , books, 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". His artwork is regarded as extremely collectible and valuable. His work include

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2964-550: The tone for his reception. In 1963, Warhol formed The Druds , a short-lived avant-garde noise band that included notable figures from the New York minimal art and proto- conceptual art scenes, including Larry Poons , La Monte Young , Walter De Maria , Jasper Johns , Claes Oldenberg , and Lucas Samaras . In January 1963, Warhol rented his first studio—an old firehouse at 159 East 87th Street—where he created his Elvis series, which included Eight Elvises (1963) and Triple Elvis (1963). These portraits, along with

3021-581: The works Gold Marilyn , eight of the classic Marilyn series also named Flavor Marilyns , Marilyn Diptych , 100 Soup Cans , 100 Coke Bottles , and 100 Dollar Bills . Gold Marilyn was bought by the architect Philip Johnson and donated to the Museum of Modern Art. In December 1962, New York City's Museum of Modern Art hosted a symposium on pop art, during which artists such as Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism. Critics were appalled by Warhol's open acceptance of market culture, which set

3078-450: Was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed. Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences. When Warhol was 13, his father died in an accident. As a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945, and also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award . After graduating from high school, he enrolled at

3135-590: Was included in the inaugural show at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas . After years of deteriorating health, Warhol's mother, Julia Warhola, died in Pittsburgh in November 1972. Although he covered the cost of her funeral, he chose not to attend or inform his close friends of her death. Warhol and his longtime partner Jed Johnson got a dachshund, Archie (Bunker) Warhol, for Christmas in 1972. Warhol doted on Archie and took him everywhere: to

3192-907: Was mounted at the Tate Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Whitney show distinctly featured Warhol's Cow Wallpaper (1966) as the backdrop for his paintings. In May 1971, Warhol's first and only theater production, Andy Warhol's Pork , opened at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York. In August 1971, it was brought to the Roundhouse in London. In late 1971, Warhol and his business partner Paul Morrissey purchased Eothen , an oceanfront estate in Montauk, New York on Long Island . They began renting

3249-448: Was taken on by Warhol around the end of 1965. In his capacity as their manager, he included them as a key component of his Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia performances in 1966 and 1967, and he funded their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). Warhol intended to present the film Chelsea Girls (1966) at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival , but it wasn't shown because "the festival authorities explained that

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