$11,500
Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 828523, case No. 617869, circa 1938. Very fine and rare 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch. massive, polished, overhanging central lugs, hinged at the bottom for quick change of bracelet, flat bezel. pink with applied gold indexes. "Baton " pink gold hands. Notes Provenance: From the Andy Warhol Collection. Andy Warhol (1927-1987) The leader of the Pop Art Movement, Andy Warhol created art about time. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1927 to immigrant parents, Warhol grew up during the Depression to become one the 20th Century's most influential artists, achieving fame and wealth along the way. His art simultaneously celebrated, satirized and critiqued postwar American culture. Warhol and his art serve as a natural catalyst for thoughtful investigation of 40 years of social and cultural change. Warhol himself became a public figure, his shock white hair and blank expression internationally recognized as symbols of modern art. Warhol's creativity and openness attracted all types of people from the strange to the unusual, including Valerie Solanas, a paranoid would-be playwright and feminist activist, who shot him in his studio in June 1968 with a.32 caliber pistol. Warhol was wounded and from then on slowed his creative output to a trickle and became much cautious. Ile died during routine surgery in 1987. Literature: Internet, Education Resources Center, programs about Andy Warhol given at the Andy Warhol Museum, © 1996 by the Andy War
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-06-20
