Andy Warhol (1928–1987) is the defining figure of American Pop Art and one of the most commercially significant artists in the history of the medium. Born in Pittsburgh to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant parents, he arrived in New York as a commercial illustrator and became, over the course of the 1960s, the artist who most completely understood what the relationship between art, celebrity, and mass production meant for the culture he was living in.
The Campbell's Soup Cans, the Marilyns, the Electric Chairs, the Flowers, the Shadows: Warhol's serial imagery — the same image repeated with chromatic variation, the mechanical process of silkscreen printing embraced rather than concealed — remains as visually immediate and conceptually charged today as when it was made. His Factory, his Interview magazine, his management of the Velvet Underground, his society portraits: everything was part of the same sustained investigation of what it means to be seen, to be famous, to be reproduced.
His graphic output is among the most significant in twentieth-century art. The screenprints produced through his studio, and the Sunday B. Morning editions produced from his original silkscreens with his tacit approval, represent two distinct but related categories of acquisition — both offering access to his visual language at different price points and with different provenance considerations.
The works available through Creed Gallery include the 1972 Hotel Marquette Sunset — one of 632 unique colour impressions — the 1981 Castelli Graphics Marilyn invitation print, the 1987 Camouflage series, and a selection of Sunday B. Morning Marilyn editions. Each is accompanied by full documentation. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.
