An exhibition featuring three original line drawings in ballpoint pen on paper by Andy Warhol, shown alongside a series of ten silkscreen prints published by Sunday B. Morning - the Belgian printing firm with whom Andy Warhol famously collaborated in the 1970s.
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Perhaps the most iconic works by Andy Warhol in the 1960s, are the series of silkscreen editions that he produced depicting Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and Flowers. Limited to just 250, these iconic editions came to be known as the ‘Factory Editions’, after the vast studio that Warhol and his collaborators occupied in midtown Manhattan.
In 1970, following the success of the Factory Editions, Warhol began collaborating with a Belgian print studio called Sunday B. Morning, with the intention of running further editions from the original screens and colour codes for a European market. These prints were stamped in black ink on the back to say, ‘Fill In Your Own Signature.’ As a Pop Artist, Warhol was interested in disrupting distinctions between mass media and high art. By inviting the owners of these prints to sign the works themselves, Warhol was challenging the idea of authorship.
Today, the black ink Sunday B. Morning prints are very rare and are catalogued and recorded in Feldman & Schellmann’s definitive Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné of his published works.
Sunday B. Morning began publishing the prints again, after many years, in the late 1990’s.
All these prints are also stamped – now with blue ink – on the verso, with the inscriptions “fill in your own signature” and “published by Sunday B. Morning”.
While ownership of Sunday B. Morning has changed hands a few times, the open edition prints are still published by the original printers in Belgium, using the same screens and printing process that they have used since their inception.
11.69: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.68: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.65: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.67: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.73: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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Flowers – display of 9 prints presented in a square grid formation
Shown here is a curated Set of 9 out of the series of 10 prints, presented in a square grid formation of 3 rows of 3.
Each framed print measures: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Approx dimensions of Set of 9 displayed in a square grid: 275 x 275 cm
Price for a Set of 9 framed prints: £8,500
See pages 31-33 for images of the complete Set of 10 prints, displayed horizontally or vertically
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11.71: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.64: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.70: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.66: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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11.72: Flowers
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented in a hand-finished black Tulip wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Price framed: £985
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I love your kisses forever
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented float mounted in a Cherry wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 53 x 68 cm
Price framed: £950
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Marilyn 11:23
Open edition screenprint on museum board
Presented float mounted in a Cherry wood box frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 103 x 103 cm
Price framed: £1,250
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Flowers – complete set of 10
Shown opposite displayed in two horizontal rows of 5
Framed dimensions (each): 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Approx dimensions of Set displayed in 2 horizontal rows:: 200 x 500 cm
Price for the complete Set of 10 framed prints: £9,000
See page 33 for the set presented vertically
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Flowers – complete set of 10
Shown opposite displayed in a vertical formation, in five rows of 2
Framed dimensions (each): 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Approx dimensions of complete Set displayed vertically as shown:: 500 x 200 cm
Price for the complete Set of 10 framed prints: £9,000
See page 31 for the set presented horizontally
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Long before Andy Warhol’s rise to the pinnacle of Pop Art, he created and exhibited seductive drawings celebrating male beauty, rendered primarily in ink on paper, portraying young men, many of them nude and sexually charged. They lounge or preen, proud of or even bored by their beauty, while the artist sketches them, rapt.
Warhol was already a booming commercial illustrator when he exhibited studies from this body of work at the Bodley Gallery on New York’s Upper East Side in 1956. He mistakenly saw these illustrations as his way of breaking into the New York art scene, underestimating the pervading homophobia of the time. While he never saw through his plan to publish the drawings as a monograph, he did produce more than a thousand elegant, seemingly effortless drawings from life.
In style, the drawings evoke the sketches of Jean Cocteau and even Matisse: highly distilled and sure of line, yet loose. The sly voyeurism, meanwhile, is entirely Warhol’s own, and even the most risqué drawings contain a kind of droll humor a sense of ironic detachment—that would become a Warhol trademark. His confident hand illustrates a multitude of colorful characters, yet also reveals much about this enigmatic artist.
Portrait of a Young Man III
1955 / 1957
Original line drawing in black ballpoint on white paper
An unsigned work by Andy Warhol, with Warhol Foundation archive numbers verso
Authenticity : This artwork comes with a certification of provenance from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, reference TOP200.147.
Provenance:
The Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Presented in a Conservation book-mount in a bespoke frame, gilded in 22ct gold leaf and glazed with Museum Glass.
Framed dimensions: 58 x 67 cm
£32,000
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Portrait of a Young Man I circa 1955/957
Original line drawing in black ballpoint on tan paper
An unsigned work by Andy Warhol, with Warhol Foundation archive numbers verso
Authenticity : This artwork comes with a certification of provenance from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, reference TOP200.258.
Provenance:
The Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Presented in a Conservation book-mount in a hand-finished Ash wood frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 49.5 x 57 cm
£29,500
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Portrait of a Young Man II
1950’s
Original line drawing in blue ballpoint on manilla paper
An unsigned work by Andy Warhol, with Warhol Foundation archive numbers verso
Authenticity : This artwork comes with a certification of provenance from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, reference TOP200.275.
Provenance:
The Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Presented in a Conservation book-mount in a hand-finished Ash wood frame, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 49.5 x 57 cm
£27,500
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Original screenprint, in colours, on Shopping Bag, 1964, signed by the artist verso
Approximately 300 signed in Ballpoint pen on verso
Published by Biancini Gallery, New York for the American Supermarket exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, New York, October 1964.
Presented in a maple wood box frame with whitewash finish, glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass
Framed dimensions: 49.5 x 57 cm
£8,500
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Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato) 1964 (Shopping Bag)
The artworks featured in this catalogue will be on display at Gloucester Room from 9th - 30th September..
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