Null ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh, USA, 1928 - New York, USA, 1987).
"Jackie Kennedy …
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ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh, USA, 1928 - New York, USA, 1987). "Jackie Kennedy II", 1966. Silkscreen, copy 30/200. Intervened by the artist with gouache in the upper right area. Stamped and numbered signature in pencil on the back. Work catalogued in Andy Warhol: Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987, Frayda Feldman/Jörg Schellmann, ref.11.14. Size: 60.5 x 76 cm; 78.5 x 93.5 cm (frame). Warhol explored the relationship between celebrity culture, artistic expression and advertising as no one else had done before. Jackie Kennedy figured prominently in this artistic investigation. He turned the media icon into an artistic icon. Warhol began his "Jackie" series shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. He began by selecting eight photographs from the media coverage of the assassination and cropping them to focus on the president's widow. The magazine and newspaper photographs were used by the artist to enlarge the images and transfer them to canvas by silkscreen printing. During 1964 Warhol produced an indefinite number of individual paintings of Jackie Kennedy which were sold as single units and in multiple configurations. In the portrait gallery, she is seen in four different poses presenting a range of expressions and attire provided by media images. The view of Jackie standing with a uniformed soldier at her side, for example, crops and inverts the Life magazine cover photograph of 6 December 1963. "Jackie Kennedy II" was part of this collection of screenprints Warhol dedicated to John F. Kennedy's widow, showing her at different moments in her life. Considered a guru of modernity, Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The son of Slovakian immigrants, he began studying art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1949. In the latter year, when he settled in New York, he began his career as an advertising cartoonist for various magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Seventeen and The New Yorker. At the same time he painted canvases whose subject matter was based on some element or image from the everyday environment, advertising or comics. He soon began to exhibit in various galleries. He progressively eliminated any expressionist traits from his works until he reduced them to a serial repetition of a popular element from mass culture, the world of consumerism or the media. This evolution reached its peak of depersonalisation in 1962, when he began to use a mechanical silkscreen printing process as his working method, by means of which he systematically reproduced myths of contemporary society, the most representative examples of which are the series dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Mao Tse-tung, as well as his famous treatment of Campbell's soup cans, all works produced during the fruitful decade of the 1960s. He is now represented in the world's most important contemporary art museums, such as MoMA, the Metropolitan and Guggenheim in New York, Fukoka in Japan, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, the National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, MUMOK in Vienna, SMAK in Ghent and the Tate Gallery in London, as well as in the museums that bear his name in Pittsburgh and Medzilaborce (Slovakia).

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ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh, USA, 1928 - New York, USA, 1987). "Jackie Kennedy II", 1966. Silkscreen, copy 30/200. Intervened by the artist with gouache in the upper right area. Stamped and numbered signature in pencil on the back. Work catalogued in Andy Warhol: Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987, Frayda Feldman/Jörg Schellmann, ref.11.14. Size: 60.5 x 76 cm; 78.5 x 93.5 cm (frame). Warhol explored the relationship between celebrity culture, artistic expression and advertising as no one else had done before. Jackie Kennedy figured prominently in this artistic investigation. He turned the media icon into an artistic icon. Warhol began his "Jackie" series shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. He began by selecting eight photographs from the media coverage of the assassination and cropping them to focus on the president's widow. The magazine and newspaper photographs were used by the artist to enlarge the images and transfer them to canvas by silkscreen printing. During 1964 Warhol produced an indefinite number of individual paintings of Jackie Kennedy which were sold as single units and in multiple configurations. In the portrait gallery, she is seen in four different poses presenting a range of expressions and attire provided by media images. The view of Jackie standing with a uniformed soldier at her side, for example, crops and inverts the Life magazine cover photograph of 6 December 1963. "Jackie Kennedy II" was part of this collection of screenprints Warhol dedicated to John F. Kennedy's widow, showing her at different moments in her life. Considered a guru of modernity, Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The son of Slovakian immigrants, he began studying art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1949. In the latter year, when he settled in New York, he began his career as an advertising cartoonist for various magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Seventeen and The New Yorker. At the same time he painted canvases whose subject matter was based on some element or image from the everyday environment, advertising or comics. He soon began to exhibit in various galleries. He progressively eliminated any expressionist traits from his works until he reduced them to a serial repetition of a popular element from mass culture, the world of consumerism or the media. This evolution reached its peak of depersonalisation in 1962, when he began to use a mechanical silkscreen printing process as his working method, by means of which he systematically reproduced myths of contemporary society, the most representative examples of which are the series dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Mao Tse-tung, as well as his famous treatment of Campbell's soup cans, all works produced during the fruitful decade of the 1960s. He is now represented in the world's most important contemporary art museums, such as MoMA, the Metropolitan and Guggenheim in New York, Fukoka in Japan, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, the National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, MUMOK in Vienna, SMAK in Ghent and the Tate Gallery in London, as well as in the museums that bear his name in Pittsburgh and Medzilaborce (Slovakia).

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