ANDY WARHOL (1927-1928)

Hammer and Sickle

細節

ANDY WARHOL (1927-1928)
Hammer and Sickle
stamped twice with the Estate of Andy Warhol and once with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamps and numbered PA25.032 (on the overlap)
synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas
30 x 19¼ in. (76.2 x 49 cm.)
Painted circa 1976-1977

來源

The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner.

出版

Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Andy Warhol: Hammer and Sickle, Zurich, 1999, no. 13 (illustrated).

展覽

Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Andy Warhol: Hammer and Sickle, 1999, no. 13 (illustrated).

拍品專文

"Following the trail of the Maos, in 1976 Andy did silkscreens of hammers and sickles. His fondness for communist iconography may have been partly motivated by a desire to please European collectors and critics, who tended to read Marxist meanings into his work, but he had always favored images of private identity resisting (and succumbing to) mass culture's manic replications, and he had always sought the literal's face overruling the figurative. The hammers and sickles may be symbols, but Warhol made the images from photographs of real hammers and sickles that Ronnie Cutrone had bought at a hardware store" (W. Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol, New York, 2001, p. 170).