FRESH!! 2 OF MY FAVS TOGETHER,THIS IS FOR SUPER SPECIAL MOMENTS IN YOUR LIFE

THIS LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT BE DOPE

THE FADE ON THIS PAINTING IS CRAZY!! BUT THE PRICE IT’S GOING FOR IS EVEN CRAZIER!!

An important Andy Warhol portrait of Liz Taylor painted in 1963 is expected to fetch up to $11 million

I GOTTA GET A FEW OF THESE IN MY HOUSE.

Prism Gallery Los Angeles continues with an impressive line-up of shows. End of last week the “Black & White” exhibition of Andy Warhol art opened.

“Prism is pleased to present a selection of late paintings by Andy Warhol. In the mid-1980s, Warhol made a series of silkscreened black and white works with imagery taken from a cross-section of sources. The paintings are stark representations of advertisements, diagrams, maps, and illustrations in newspapers and magazines pulled from his scrapbook of ads from the 1950s. Warhol’s themes of consumer culture, death and religion are dramatically represented in these late works. The ghostly messages seem to fade and dissolve the text into near abstractions. Some 25 years later the immediacy and familiarity of the images still resonate within today’s advertisement and image driven culture.”

PRISM LA

8746 W. Sunset Boulevard

West Hollywood, CA 90069

THIS AND THE MJ WARHOL ARE FAVORITES, THATS WHY I WORK NONE STOP CAUSE THE SHIT I LIVE FOR IS SELLING FOR RECORD BREAKING NUMBERS.

Andy Warhol has never looked better—to an audience of contemporary art collectors and dealers, that is. Last night, Sotheby’s sold an Andy Warhol painting titled Self-Portrait sold to an anonymous phone bidder for $32.6 million (including the buyer’s premium), setting a new record for a Warhol self portrait at auction.

At least six bidders competed for Self Portrait, an acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas painting that was painted in 1986. The large iconic and rare painting, which measures 108″ by 108″, is from Warhol’s final series of Self Portraits – widely acknowledged as the most important of his career. The estimate was $10 million to $15 million.

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THIS

WELL DAMN (GUCCI VOICE)

An unknown buyer has acquired Andy Warhol’s Eight Elvises in a private sale, for a record $100 million. It sends Warhol straight into the top 10 list of the most expensive artists of all time. An auction price of $43.8m for his 200 One Dollar Bills in New York earlier this month confirms Warhol as the marquee name in the art market. The

unusual thing about this Warhol, however, is that it is unique. Unlike the artist’s other screen prints, which were run off, sometimes in hundreds of editions, he only made one of the work he called Eight Elvises.

Although the sale of Eight Elvises was completed last year, details have only just emerged after a year-long investigation by the art writer Sarah Thornton, who published her findings in this week’s Economist.

The picture, a 12ft canvas, has not been seen in public since it was exhibited in Los Angeles in 1963 as part of a much larger, 37ft canvas with 16 Elvises on it. When that massive work was dismantled, Eight Elvises went back to being one distinct piece. In the late 1960s, the work was sold to Annibale Berlingieri, an Italian collector. Since 2002, he has consistently been one of the three most bought and sold artists. At the height of the art market boom, in 2007, auctionsales of his work totaled $428m, the highest turnover of any artist.

Although there is no doubt about the sale, the buyer remains a mystery. There are, however, only a few individuals who would be able to afford such a work.

I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THESE DAMN!!!!!!!!!!

Danziger Projects plays host to an amazing collection of polaroids by Andy Warhol entitled ‘Greatness’. “In 1977, Richard Weisman, an art collector and a friend of Warhol’s, commissioned a series of paintings of ten great sports figures of the era, now known as the “Athlete Series”. The group of athletes was selected by Mr. Weisman, and included stars of a variety of sports: Muhammad Ali (boxing), Pelé (soccer), Dorothy Hamill (figure skating), Tom Seaver (baseball), Jack Nicklaus (golf), O.J. Simpson (football), Chris Evert (tennis), Willie Shoemaker (horse racing), Rod Gilbert (ice hockey, NY Rangers), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball).” Warhol was the master of capturing the moment, in more ways than one, this collection of photographs shows another side to the artists ability to document and expose.

Available to view from the 31st October through to December 12th.

THIS IS SOMETHING TO SEE

There is something about the immediacy and rawness of Polaroid images that makes them incredibly intimate and powerful.  Andy Warhol understood this better than anyone which is why his Polaroid Big Shot became his favourite tool for capturing the world around him.  A new exhibition “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” celebrates this.  Featuring nearly 250 Polaroids and 75 black and white prints of the images taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, plus some of his films from the 1960s, in addition to thousands of other Polaroids featuring celebrity confidantes such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Truman Capote, Dorothy Hamill, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, Jack Nicklaus and former Cars vocalist Rick Ocasek, which he used as studies for his silkscreen paintings.

BOY!!!!!! EVERYBODY IS CASHING IN ON MJ