Andy Warhol’s art-school works—including what's believed to be his first self-portrait—will go on sale at Phillips:
. Image courtesy of the Warhol Family Collection and Phillips.
Long before Warhol pioneered Pop art, however, he was just another art student known as Andrew Warhola at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The playful painting, which was rejected from the annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh exhibition for being too “offensive,” displays Warhol’s early irreverence toward supposed good taste in art. This could be seen as forecasting the boldness with which the artist would go on to revolutionize what could be counted as art. It is estimated to fetch $250,000 to $450,000.
He based his dawing on his parents’ own living room, merging his highly personal reality with invented elements. The work has therefore been linked to the kind of identity construction that would soon see the artist reinvent himself as Andy Warhol.
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