"Portrait Oliver (1980)". Acrylic and screen-printed ink on canvas. Signed and dated "Andy Warhol 80" in the upper right corner (folded on the frame). Exhibition label "Andy Warhol, Schweizer Portraits", Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, Ausstellung vom 17.6.-22.8.1982 on the back. Slight cracking at the top left.
This work belongs to the Schwizer Portraits series and is one of the two canvases that Warhol painted on behalf of the sitter. Both were featured in the "Andy Warhol, Schweizer Portraits" exhibition. Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, June 17 to August 22, 1982. Reproduced in the catalog and referenced with number 22.
Warhol, one of the most influential painters of the second half of the 20th century, in the 70s and 80s He decides to make a series of commissioned portraits. Reflection of the high society of America and Europe, businessmen, artists, actors and gallery owners, are portrayed by Warhol. The scholar and influencer Robert Rosenblum goes so far as to name him "Court Painter of the 70s" in the catalog of the exhibition, "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies" (November 1979 - January 1980) that the Whitney Museum of American Art organizes in New York.
A universal Court, without borders, where the King is Warhol himself who reinvents the great tradition of portraiture that Titian, Velázquez, Goya and other great masters had enshrined in all European courts.
Our Portrait Oliver from 1980 belongs to the last decade of the artist''s production. Between 1978 and 1987 Warhol produced the series Self-portraits, Oxidation Paintings, Shadows, Retrospective Paintings, Yarn, Camouflage, The Last Supper and his great collaborations with Basquiat, Clemente and Haring; a finale of glorious creativity that the exhibition Warhol The last decade (2009 - 2011) consecrates in its tour of four museums in the United States: Milwaukee Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Brooklyn Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
We thank the Kunstmuseum Thun and the NYPL (New York Public Library) for their collaboration in cataloging this work.
Provenance:
- Private collection, Spain.
Exhibitions:
- Andy Warhol, Schweizer Portraits", Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, Thun, Switzerland. June 17 to August 22, 1982.
Bibliography:
- J. DOLEZAL, G .: Andy Warhol, Schweizer Portraits. Kunstsammlung Thun. Thun, 1982. SP Rep. Col. Cat. Ref. 22. 40" x 40"
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