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Race Riot is a 1964 acrylic and silkscreen painting by the American artist Andy Warhol that he executed in 1964. It fetched $62,885,000 at Christie's in New York on 13 May 2014. [ 1 ] [ a ]
Andy Warhol (/ ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l /; [1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century.
Thirteen Most Wanted Men was a 1964 mural by Andy Warhol. The artwork was created for the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York. The mural was Warhol's only public work. It was painted over with silver paint before the fair opened, reportedly due to official objections.
The decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith capped off nearly four decades’ worth of derivative works that began in 1981, when Lynn Goldsmith photographed Prince.
Bischofberger also represented Warhol and arranged a lunch meeting between the two artists on October 4, 1982. [5] Warhol documented the meeting in a diary entry, which was posthumously published in The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989): Down to meet Bruno Bischofberger (cab $7.50). He brought Jean-Michel Basquiat with him.
Green Car Crash was privately owned for more than 30 years, and when it was put up for sale in 2007, it generated a large amount of interest. By that time, it set a new record for an Andy Warhol creation, being sold for $71.7 million, [3] while the pre-auction estimate was $25 million.
Warhol's April 1966 show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York consisted of Cow Wallpaper in one room, and a second room with Warhol's silver helium-filled Clouds. [5]At Warhol's request, the pink and yellow Cow Wallpaper was used as the backdrop to cover all the walls for his 1971 retrospective at the Whitney in New York.
The summer race riots that engulfed the nation in waves of violence had a grim and harrowing spark – a mass stabbing at a dance class in the seaside town of Southport, carried out by a teenager ...