This is a RARE Vintage Modern ANDY WARHOL Exhibition Poster, lithograph or silkscreen serigraph on paper, custom framed, for the iconic 1983 Swedish exhibition of "[Ingrid Bergman] With Hat," and other recent artworks by Andy Warhol, at Galerie Borjeson in Malmo, Sweden. 

This rare Pop Art exhibition poster was published by Galerie Borjeson, and printed in Sweden in 1983 in an unnumbered very limited edition on the occasion of the exhibition. It features an iconic artwork image by created by Warhol, titled "With Hat" from the Ingrid Bergman Portfolio.

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) is one of the singularly most well-known Contemporary artists of all time. His imagery is recognized worldwide. His infamous life, artworks, and creative endeavors are like no other artist. He is credited as the very first artist to use common everyday objects and view them in a completely different way while paying homage to their role in our society. Glorifying the common as the beautiful. His technique utilizing a silkscreen method combined with hand finishing in a signature palette of vibrant color hues make the work stand on its own and loved by millions.

In 1983, Andy Warhol was commissioned by Swedish art dealer Per-Olov Borjeson, the founder of the well-known Galerie Borjeson, to portray one of the country's most famous prolific stars Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982), to celebrate her illustrious career. Warhol, who famously painted celebrities Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1960's, had developed a new style of portraiture in the 1980's. He would illustrate details through delicate outlines, an homage to his early career as an illustrator.

The Ingrid Bergman portfolio of works were made in 1983, just several years before Warhol's death. The artworks showcase the artist's enduring fascination with celebrity and the way that fame could elevate a mere mortal to the status of a goddess. Warhol created a stunning representation of the star and her legacy informed by the complexities that accompany life as an object of fame and celebrity.

The rare and out-of-print original exhibition poster is approximately 27 7/8 x 39 5/8 inches (including frame.) Additionally, this piece was custom framed in the early 1980's with a complimentary vivid blue painted vintage aluminum frame.

This artwork is in very good condition for age and storage, with some scratches and paint loss to the original period frame, some light speckles of debris and dust under the glass, and some very faint discoloration to the lower right corner of the print (please see photos.)

Acquired from an old and affluent estate collection in Los Angeles County, California. Priced to Sell. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!



About the Artist:

Andy Warhol Born:  1928 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died:   1987 - New York City
Known for:  Pop-modernist multi-images, silk screen

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania.  Andy Warhol is known for Pop-modernist multi-images, silk screen.

Andy Warhol, whose name is synonymous with Pop Art*, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.  He studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949.  He then went to New York City where he became an illustrator until 1960 when he began making paintings based on comic strip characters such as Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Superman.

He turned from the prevailing Abstract-Expressionist* styles and the emphasis on the artist's emotion to a hard-line Realism*, using many common images associated with the popular media such as a Campbell Soup can or a Coca-Cola bottle or Brillo pad. The first images were hand painted, but many were reproduced with a silk-screen process.  He became the "first artist to utlize the screenprint medium to elevate both common and famous photographic images from popular culture to fine art status." (Falk Vol III, p. 3465)

In May, 1999, ARTNews magazine named him one of the twenty-five most influential artists-ever.  About him, it was written: . . . "it all began with the first Campbell's soup can in 1962. . . With this simple image, the concepts of appropriation and commidification were let loose for good. Warhol's celebration of his screen sirens, hustler hunks, and cafe-society wanna-bees . . .had an equally dramatic effect."

In 1964, Warhol began making sculpture, often with labels from supermarkets, and in the 1970s, he turned to portraits, some of the most famous being Jackie Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Mao Tse Tung, and Marilyn Monroe.  These images reflected his fascination with the topic of death, something he carried into a series called Death and Disaster, that included depictions of car crashes and gang warfare.  Many celebrities and socialites regarded it as a notch 'up-the-ladder' of social recognition to be painted by Warhol.

He died in New York City in 1987 from gall bladder surgery that no one expected to be complicated.

Sources:
Matthew Baigell, "Dictionary of American Art"
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
ArtNews, May 1999


Biography from Phillips London

Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. 



Biography from RoGallery

1928 Born in Pittsburgh, PA
1945 - 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Major: Pictural Design.
1962 Founded The Factory
1969 Founded Interview Magazine
1987 Died in New York, NY

Andy Warhol began his career as a commercial illustrator, developing ads for the I. Miller Department store in New York.  His first exhibition was in 1962, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, which included all 32 of his Campbell's Soup Can renditions.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1928 as Andrew Warhola, Andy Warhol came to represent more than just the American condition.  He became pivotal in the evolution of artistic production in relationship to mainstream mass-produced culture and commercialism. The founder and most influential figure of the Pop Art movement, Warhol received his training in graphic design from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949. He then moved to New York City to begin his career as a commercial artist where he gained phenomenal success. By 1955, Warhol was the most successful and most-influential commercial artist in New York.

His career took flight when he produced the first of his window displays using enlarged comic strip images. Characters such as Superman and Popeye were among the popular images he incorporated into designer fashion. Needless to say, his department store windows drew a lot of attention, and Warhol garnered a reputation for the extreme. One of Warhol's most important developments was his use of enlarged photographic images which were silk screened directly onto canvas and/or paper. This technique enabled him to produce quickly and cheaply a series of mass-media images that he marketed to the public. Iconographic objects such as Soup Cans, U.S. Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, as well as the various faces of celebrities and politicians became highly sought after by art aficionados.

In the late 1960s, Warhol experimented with the medium of film exploring such rhetorical topics as time, boredom, and repetition.  He founded inter/VIEW magazine in 1969 (later changed to Interview in 1971), published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again and continued to produce silkscreens until his death in 1987.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Warhol's World, Hauser & Wirth, London
2006 Man's Best Friend, Lococo Fine Art, St. Louis, MO
2006 Andy Warhol: Vanishing Animals, Medium SARL, Gustavia, St. Barthelemy
2005 Andy Warhol Self-Portraits, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2004 Andy Warhol - Selbstportraits, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
2004 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2004 The Late Andy Warhol - The Late Work, museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf
2004 Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, Kunstwerke, Berlin
2004 Andy Warhol, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2004 Andy Warhol - LATE PAINTINGS, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Andy Warhol - The Time Capsules, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2003 Warhol - Screen Tests, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001 Retrospective, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1999 Photography, The Andy Warhol Museum, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, travelled to Pittsburgh,
1998 Reframing Andy Warhol: Constructing American Myths, Heroes and Cultural Icons, University Art Gallery, Maryland
1993 Andy Warhol: Abstract, Basel, Kunsthalle, travelled to Vienna, Östereichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst; Valencia, IVAM,
1992 Andy Warhol Polaroids 1971 - 1986, New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, travelled to London, Anthony d'Offay; Paris, Durand-Dessert,
1991 Andy Warhol's Video and Television, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1990 Andy Warhol: Films, IVAM, Valencia
1990 Andy Warhol: Cars-The Last Pictures, Kunstmuseum, Berne
1990 The Prints of Andy Warhol, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York
1989 Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, Hayward Gallery, London
1989 Andy Warhol: Shadow Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1976 Venice Biennale
1970 Museum of Contempary Art, Chicago
1970 Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1970 Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1970 Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA, toured the US
1969 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1968 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1968 Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1967 Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1967 Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1966 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1966 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1965 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1964 Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1964 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1964 Stable Gallery, New York
1963 Fetus Gallery, Los Angeles
1962 Fetus Gallery, Los Angeles
1952 Andy Warhol: Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote, Hugo Gallery, New York


Biography from Denis Bloch Fine Art

Andy Warhol was born with the name Andy Warhola in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the son of working class Slovakian immigrants.  His father was a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old. A sickly child and often confined to bed, Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting.

After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as a commercial illustrator for magazines such as Vogue, Glamour and Harper's Bazaar.  His whimsical and distinct drawing style quickly gained attention, and he enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator.  The artist changed the spelling of his name in 1949 after he was credited as "Drawings by Warhol" for the article "Success is a Job in New York".

In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show at the Hugo Gallery in New York, and by 1956, he took part in an important group exhibition at the renowned Museum of Modern Art.  In the early sixties Warhol started painting ordinary mass produced items like Campbell Soup cans, Brillo Boxes and Coke bottles and soon became a famous figure in the New York art scene.  From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy among others.

The quintessence of Andy Warhol art was to remove the line between Fine Arts and the Commercial Arts used in magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums and advertising campaigns.  Warhol once expressed his philosophy in one poignant sentence: "When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums". He established The Factory, his art studio-hangout-film stage where he and his art assistants congregated with B-film actors, musicians, celebrities and the social elite all of which inspired or took part in Warhol's creative mass production process.

In June 1968 the artist was shot by Valerie Solanis—a minor figure in the in the Factory crowd who had founded a group named SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men)—she was also its president and sole member.  Warhol was seriously wounded and only narrowly escaped death spending two months in the hospital.  When Solanis was arrested the day after, her words were "He had too much control over my life".  Warhol never recovered completely from his wounds and had to wear a bandage around his torso for the rest of his life.

After the assassination attempt, Warhol made a radical turn in his process of producing art.  The philosopher of artistic mass production now spent most of his time creating commissioned portraits of the rich and famous including Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli and Brigitte Bardot.

Warhol's activities became more and more entrepreneurial: He created the magazine Interview and even co-owned a night-club.  In 1974 the Factory was moved to 860 Broadway.  In 1975 Warhol published 'THE philosophy of Andy Warhol'.  In the book he describes what art is: "Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."  During the 1980s, Warhol collaborated with younger emerging artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987 from complications after gall bladder surgery. More than 2,000 people attended the memorial mass held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.  Warhol's will dictated that his estate be used to create a foundation dedicated to the "advancement of the visual arts".  In 1987 the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was founded in his hometown of Pittsburgh and in 1994 the city welcomed The Andy Warhol Museum. The museum's permanent collection and archives make it the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the world.

Quote:
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

Select Museum Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Getty Center, Los Angeles
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Tate Gallery, London