Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) 1976 "The American Indian Series" - Russell Charles Means portrait (1939-2012) Tryptic set of 3 Lithographs
Tryptic set of 3 Lithographs on thin paper, the blue one signed on the right side by Andy Warhol and on the left by the Indian chief Russell Means, both with a black felt pen - Dimensions each 127x87cm. Ace Gallery exhibitions 1976 prints in Paris (October 1976 FIAC) Canada (1976) Los Angeles (March 1977). Signed at the vernissage of the Ace Gallery exhibition in Los Angeles in March 1977 In the London Tate Gallery Museum collection. This tryptic colored lithographs announcements features Andy Warhol's "The American Indian Series" images published by Ace Gallery. Warhol captured the portrait of the Native American civil rights**activist Russell Charles Means. The monochromatic blue, red & black portraits are part of a large series of multi colored, stylized prints by the artist. Warhol showcased Native Americans and their artifacts as haunting and powerful but in danger of being forgotten. He tried to combat the visual stereotype characteristic of Native American depictions with several color variations. "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art" Andy Warhol in "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol From A to B and Back Again" 1975 "In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly
different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it" Andy Warhol.
Two sets of this very rare Artwork were catalogued in two different French public auctions :
1-7-2009 at Paris Drouot at Delorme & Collin du Bocage under lot 144 page 9 Described & reproduced.& 9-12-2008 at Paris Drouot at Joron-Derem under lot 134 page 74 Described & reproduced.
Screen print :
Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works.
In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Andy Warhol :
American artist of Slovak origins, he was born in Pittsburgh in 1928.
Warhol is a key figure of the American avant-garde, leader of The Pop Art movement since 1960's.
He graduated from Fine-Arts in 1949, and settled in New York to begin a career in advertising, using his draughtsman and illustrator's skills. Also creator of theater costumes, he chose an androgynous look and wore a platinum blonde wig and picked his name after his birth name: Andrew Warhola.
He realized his first works drawing inspiration from comics (Popeye, 1961) or labels of common consummation products (Del Monte Peach Halves, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup).
In 1962, Warhol took part in the « nouveaux réalistes » exhibition in New York, with Roy Lichtenstein and Yves Klein, which introduced Pop Art as an artistic movement.
Through silkscreen printing, he elaborated series about celebrities (Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy or Elvis). He also used them to revisit Mona Lisa's myth and proceeded to a study about flowers.
Warhol's art is close to cinema, in which he worked starting from 1963. He considerably inspired cinematographic avant-garde. Appearing often in magazines, he was considered as an marginal icon.
He opened his workshop-studio The « Factory » in 1963, which became one of the trendiest places of New York's life. The band The Velvet Underground, settled in it in its early stages. Warhol shot several experimental films there.
He met Keith Haring in 1983, became his mentor, and was then joined Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1986 to contribute to the renewal of expressionist figuration.
The artist died in New York in 1987.
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