Details
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Dollar Sign
stamped twice with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. and the Estate of Andy Warhol stamps and numbered 'PA30.022' (on the overlap); numbered again 'PA30.022' (on the stretcher)
sythentic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1981.
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private collection, San Francisco
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 14 May 2014, lot 157
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol: $, November 1997, n.p., pl. 24 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
(A. Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol From A to B and Back Again), New York, 1975, pp. 92)

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