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1963

See also : Top 10  Painting  USA  USA II  Warhol  USA by Warhol  Celebrities by Warhol  Lichtenstein  England  Bacon  The Man
1962

1963 The Disaster of America
2013 SOLD 105 M$ including premium

The American dream is not enough to express the world. Very early, Andy Warhol wants to confront death. Death and Disaster is the generic name he gave to this new artistic theme. The news spread by the magazines are horrible. In 1963, Andy rescreened the images of their most terrible car accidents.

On November 13 in New York, Sotheby's sells Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), 267 x 416 cm. It is a diptych, estimated $ 60M. It is illustrated on the blog post shared by Sotheby's.

On the left, the image is repeated fifteen times in three columns and five rows, with some variations in the shades of gray. On the right, the area is empty, as if the horrific scene had an extension inviting for the destruction of other lives and other cars. Warhol made ​​a similar use of the diptych in some pictures of Liz.

Another accident of the same year based on two different images became famous in the history of auctions when Christie's sold Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), 229 x 203 cm, for $ 72M including premium on 16 May 2007 from a lower estimate of $ 25M showing that the tragic dimension of Warhol's art had not yet been appreciated at its fair value .

The pale green of the Burning car and the apparent incompleteness of its sequence in the bottom right corner put this image in the direct continuity of the Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster).

I invite you to play the video shared by Sotheby's.

POST SALE COMMENT

This highly important Warhol was sold for $ 105M including premium.

The low resolution image below is shared by Wikimedia for fair use :
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1963 The King and the Bad Boy
2014 SOLD for $ 82M including premium

After exploiting the adoration of the public for two actresses, Marilyn and Liz, Andy Warhol looked at the male actors. OnNovember 12 in New York, Christie's sells two of his most outstanding works in this theme, the Triple Elvis (Ferus Type) and the Quadruple Marlon. Both men, each in his own way, embodied the rebellion of the younger generation. 

The 1963 exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles gave an opportunity for the artist to prepare multiple images of the King on a silver background that evoked the movie screen. On 9 May 2012, Sotheby's sold for $ 37M including premium a Double Elvis (Ferus Type), 208 x 122 cm, for which the inequality of density of the two identical figures brings a feeling of frenzy. 

For the Triple Elvis, lot 9 of the next sale, 208 x 173 cm, the three overlapping figures are of equal density but the momentum is provided by their unequal interval. 

To honor Marlon in 1966, Andy uses an untreated canvas that enhances the brilliance. On most images, rarer than Elvis, the Bad Boy is a rebel confined to the right side of the canvas. 

A Double Marlon 213 x 243 cm, was sold for $ 32M including premium at Christie's on 13 May 2008. The Four Marlons, lot 10 of the next sale, 206 x 165 cm, is the only in this series for which the image occupies the entire surface in two rows of two pictures. 

Both lots, to be sold separately, come from a German collection built for decorating a casino. The press release of September 10 announced a global estimate in the region of $ 130M for the two lots. 

I invite you to play the two videos shared by Christie's: Elvis andMarlon.

RESULTS INCLUDING PREMIUM
Triple Elvis : 82M
Four Marlons : 70M

The low resolution image below is shared by Wikimedia for fair use :
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1963 The Unwanted Contribution of Picasso to Pop Art
2013 SOLD 56 M$ including premium

In 1961, around Leo Castelli, the Abstract Expressionism is already going to saturation. New ideas were required. By exploring the pop art, Lichtenstein and Warhol demonstrated that despite Duchamp, despite the Surrealists, despite the Bauhaus, the modern imaging was still to be created.

Each one in his own way, these two competing artists designed images that the public can understand and love, inspired by consumerism, magazines, posters and comics.

From those early days, Roy Lichtenstein appropriates works of art. He wants to identify this action as a tribute to his predecessors, but his approach is too subtle for believing such a statement.

Picasso expressed deep feelings with a perfectly mastered drawing and adjusted colors. Lichtenstein's genius is to appreciate that Picasso's art is recognizable by the general public, but too complicated to retain. He plagiarizes it, bringing his personal techniques with colors alternately flat and by dots.

Dora Maar is the woman with flowered hat, painted by Picasso in 1939-1940. As Lichtenstein painted her in 1963, she had become pitiful to earn her place in the popular imaging.

The Lichtenstein canvas, 127 x 102 cm, is one of the most illustrative examples of Pop Art. It is for sale by Christie's in New York on May 15 The press release tells that it is expected in excess of $ 30M. Here is the link to the catalog.

POST SALE COMMENT

The result, $ 56M including premium, may seem huge for an appropriation. It reinforces the fact that the pop art of the early 1960s was one of the most important artistic revolutions.


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1963 The Solemn Visit of Mona Lisa in America
2015 SOLD for $ 56M including premium

Mona Lisa made a solemn visit to the United States in early 1963. The painting was received by the President and Mrs. Kennedy with the honors due to a queen. Its stay was managed in two steps: the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

This event is a triumph for culture and for trans-Atlantic friendship. Jacqueline Kennedy who thought and required this operation has a European sensibility and desires to fight America's reputation of cultural backwardness. André Malraux, French Minister of Culture, accepted the risk.

The American art is changing. Andy Warhol, like Norman Rockwell before him, is attentive to all symbols that can move the Americans. His technique of silkscreen art is developed. Executed in the previous year, the anaglyphic Statue of Liberty was already a synthesis of his blending of culture, politics and art.

A curator at the Metropolitan invited Warhol to interpret Mona Lisa. This approach is highly remarkable because Andy was still unknown two years earlier. It demonstrates the impulse and the need of the Americans to enter modern life during the Kennedy presidency.

Andy chooses three themes from a picture taken in a magazine: full image, bust and hands, and realizes the screens in several sizes. He mixes the screens in all orthogonal positions, even overlapping some of them, and separately uses with no addition the four basic colors of printing: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The famous Leonardo's picture confronts altogether the techniques and the disorders of the industrial civilization.

The largest multiple Mona Lisa realized by Warhol, 320 x 208 cm, is for sale at Christie's in New York on May 13, lot 26B. The estimate is not published, but this lot is expected in the region of $ 40M. Warhol's Liberty referred above was sold for $ 43,7M including premium by Christie's on November 14, 2012.

I invite you to play the video shared by Christie's.

1963 Sir George and the Petty Thief
2017 SOLD for $ 52M including premium

At the turn of the 1960s the art world is demanding changes. Abstraction has taken up too much space and cancels the psychological observation. Francis Bacon then enjoys the top level of fame to such an extent that his sado-masochistic impulses are reversed : after Peter Lacy's death, Francis desires to dominate a young male muse.

George Dyer meets perfectly this new need. His powerful body evokes the masculine nudes sculpted by Michelangelo. His shabby life as a petty thief innocent of art excites Francis who creates the unverifiable story of their first encounter in 1963 during a burglary in his studio. Francis sometimes nicknames 'Sir George' this magnificent lover.

George has a weak personality that he vainly tries to offset by tobacco, drugs and alcohol. The colossus with feet of clay becomes for Francis a subject of study of the human contradictions. As ever Francis seeks through his models the mirror of his own complexity.

Francis grabs his brushes to deepen this new quest. He likes the series on a homogeneous background for their possibility of varying the expression. His very first study for a portrait of George is a triptych of 35 x 30 cm elements displaying the head in life size, painted in 1963.

Francis twists nose and cheeks and adds vivid colors to better reveal the tensions but the overall features remain perfectly superimposable to the photographs of George. On a black background and with no information on the garment, this triple head that comes out of the shadows with an empty gaze is one of the most profound testimonies by Bacon on the psychological misery.

This triptych is sold by Christie's in New York on May 17, lot 38 B in the post-war and contemporary art evening sale. This lot is the subject of a special publication in 134 pages with an introduction by Brett Gorvy. The February 24 press release announces an estimate between $ 50M and $ 70M. Please watch the video shared by Christie's.
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1963 How Francis viewed Henrietta
2015 SOLD for $ 48M including premium

A portrait of Henrietta Moraes by Francis Bacon was sold for £ 21.3M including premium by Christie's on February 14, 2012. It comes back for sale on May 13 in New York, also at Christie's, lot 23B.

Here is my previous discussion (slightly modified) of this lot :

They were not only boys in Soho drinking clubs. Francis Bacon looks at the girls although he is not sexually concerned with them. 

They do not sit in his studio. He requires the photos by John Deakin to prepare the paintings of these friends but it is his usual practice for males or females, in close up faces or full length in the nude.

His two muses are Muriel Belcher and Henrietta Moraes. A painting made in 1961, showing one of them or a mixing of both, was sold for £ 8.3 million including premium by Sotheby's on 29 June 2011. In discussing this work in this column, I had indicated that the woman looked like a crouching piece of meat.

The figure of Henrietta coming for sale is an oil on canvas 165 x 142 cm painted in 1963. Perhaps in an effort to appreciate heterosexuality, the artist displays the woman naked on a bed with a pillow.

Henrietta, 33 years old, is not a monster. Francis appreciated that fact and this painting in lavish colors is a rare example of female eroticism in his art.

1963 The Frenetic Bustle of Elvis Presley
2012 SOLD 37 M$ including premium

Sotheby's is right in suggesting somewhere in its catalog that there is no real difference between Elvis Presley, a Campbell's soup can or a bottle of Coca Cola. In 1963, each one in its own way is a product of mass consumption.

At this time, Warhol explores the multiples. His series on Elvis Presley multiplies the King in various ways, the most common presenting the bodies in parallel, partly superimposed.

The Double Elvis for sale on May 9 in New York is the most original of this series inspired by a movie still. It is estimated $ 30M.

The King is a standing cowboy, front view, ready to fire. On a silver background, he is larger than life on the canvas 208 x 122 cm. Moreover, he has two heads, one in normal contrast and the other very pale, like a reflection.

Within only one painting, Warhol makes an apology to both the king of rock and the moving picture. This double view is reminiscent of the researches by Marey, Muybridge and others who had made the transition from still image to film. The frenetic bustle of the rock and roll is yet perfectly personified by Warhol's Double Elvis half a century later.

I invite you to play the video shared by Sotheby's.

POST SALE COMMENT

Elvis was not the best known in the early pantheon of the stars that inspired Warhol. This double figure is undeniably interesting and strange. It was sold $ 37M including premium.

1963 The Colors of Liz
2014 SOLD for $ 31.5M including premium

Andy Warhol has built much of his initial fame with a single image of Marilyn and a single image of Liz, taken from magazines. They however did not have the same role in the development of his business.

The first Marilyns from 1962 are experimental. Andy's idea is to mix the techniques of acrylic and silkscreen. He makes his hand in a variety of processes, dimensions and positioning of the image that is sometimes already multiplied in juxtaposition on a single canvas.

The Liz selected during the summer of 1963 opens the use of paint for a multiple reproduction with fixed dimensions. She is first seen on a background of silver painting, referring to the movie screens. A first pass of screen printing provides a mark for the colors: pink skin, red mouth, turquoise eye shadows. A second screen printing brings the deep black lines and hair.

In November 1963, Andy is preparing an exhibition of 101 x 101 cm Liz's which will be similar excepted the background color. The paintings used in this exhibition are numbered from 1 to 6. Seven additional specimens were not numbered. The series is identified as the Early Colored Liz.

In the following year, Andy uses his Liz in printed editions, again with backgrounds from various colors.

The Early Colored Liz number 5 on turquoise background was sold for $ 27M including premium by Phillips de Pury on May 12, 2011. The number 1 in a too bright yellow settled at $ 20.3M including premium on November 13, 2013 at Sotheby's (sold). An unnumbered turquoise was sold for $ 23.5M including premium at Christie's on November 13, 2007.

The Early Colored Liz number 3 with green background will be sold on November 11 by Sotheby's in New York, lot 27.

1963-1965 Liz on a Wider Screen
2015 SOLD for $ 28M including premium

Andy Warhol was a clever businessman of his own art. In 1963, when he executed his series of Liz Taylor pictures, he made it as multiple single paintings of the same design instead of positioning many images on one canvas.

He maintained however the illusion of wall advertising by exhibiting side by side the similar elements of the group. Afterwards each artwork could be sold separately by the owner of the set.

On May 11, 2010, Sotheby's sold for $ 18.3M including premium the Silver Liz diptych. It had been discussed in this column at that time. It is now estimated $ 25M for sale by Christie's in New York on May 11, lot 19A.

This specimen has a specific history. It was included in the exhibition of ten Silver Liz 101 x 101 cm at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in September-October 1963. When he prepared another exhibition to be held in Philadelphia in 1965, Andy recuperated this specific copy and flanked it on its left with a blank canvas of same size and same silver shade.

In this new configuration which has never been disassembled, the Silver Liz diptych remained a tribute to Liz while also imitating the wide screens of the movie theaters.

​1963 Life and Death of Liz Taylor
2011 SOLD 27 M$ including premium

Liz Taylor died on March 23, 2011. The very next day Phillips de Pury announced in a press release that her portrait by Warhol will be included in their contemporary art auction in New York on May 12. Of course the negotiations with the seller had taken place before the death of the actress, but the media effect was very strong.

This is the number 5, 101 x 101 cm, painted in 1963 as part of a group of thirteen works with the same picture on different background colors. This painting is shown on the release shared by Artdaily.

Unfortunately for her, Liz was sickly. Warhol used an expressionist technique for paying tribute to his idol. The violet contour of the eyes up to the eyebrows, the too dark red lips accentuate the appearance of pale face. The turquoise background of this serial number 5 has a chilling effect.

The press release announced an estimate of $ 20M, not repeated in the catalog. Another turquoise copy, same size, had been sold for $ 23.5 million including premium by Christie's on November 13, 2007.

Let us quote results for two other works from the same series, again in the same size. Liz on dark red background was sold for $ 12.6 million including premium by Sotheby's on May 10, 2005. The silver Liz was sold £ 6.7 million including premium at Christie's on June 30, 2010.

POST SALE COMMENT

Victory for the turquoise version: $ 27M including premium.
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