Camouflage

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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Camouflage
stamped twice with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and the Estate of Andy Warhol stamps and numbered ‘VF PA85.006' (on the overlap); numbered again 'PA85.006' (on the stretcher)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Executed in 1986.

Provenance

Estate of Andy Warhol, New York
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1998
Peder Bonnier Gallery, New York
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Literature

E. Wingate, ed., Andy Warhol: Camouflage, New York, 1998, pp. 73 and 132, pl. 29 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol, Camouflage Paintings. January-February 1999.

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Lot Essay

"Abstraction was not only a way to be taken more seriously, but also—and much more significantly—a refuge from difficulties of reality. In that sense, the Camouflage paintings, in all their formal abstract splendor, can be seen as true portraits of Andy Warhol's inner-self".(B. Colacello, 'Andy Warhol, Abstraction, and the Camouflage Paintings,' Andy Warhol Camouflage, New York, 1998, p. 9).

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