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‘Guess what, I’m alive!’: How New York artist Alice Neel seduced us with her fearless, fleshy portraits

Alice Neel: Striking images of America's ignored The Estate of Alice Neel Rita and Hubert A new exhibition at London's Barbican Art Gallery celebrates the work of Alice Neel, an unconventional, innovative artist who painted those on the margins of society, writes Cath Pound. "She understood it as a political decision… she saw abstraction as a kind of move away …

Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of the artist then known as Prince, and one of Andy Warhol’s variations on a theme. But a battle continues over whether Warhol infringed Goldsmith’s copyright or whether he used the photo legally under copyright law’s “fair use” doctrine to create the portraits. According to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Warhol “cropped the image …

From Lucian Freud to Andy Warhol: The artistic depictions of the Queen

When director Andrew Rossi reread the diaries of artist Andy Warhol, above, it registered far more deeply with him. ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’ for me is a love story.” So elemental a force in mass media that someone might reliably call him a hyperobject — like the internet, or a black hole — artist Andy Warhol has never been fully …

Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn has gone under the hammer for $195 million, becoming the most expensive work by an American artist sold at auction and the most expensive piece of 20th-century art ever sold. Christie's said an unnamed buyer, believed to be American art dealer Larry Gagosian, purchased Warhol's Marilyn 1964 silk-screen for $195 million. Monday's auction at …

Warhol’s ‘Marilyn’ auction nabs $195M; most for US artist

NEW YORK — Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction. It’s also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took …

A Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol was sold at $195 million at the auction house Christie's in New York on Monday. Warhol's painting received the highest price for any American work of art sold at auction 'One of the greatest paintings of all time' "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" by the pop artist "is the absolute pinnacle of American Pop," …

Pop artist Andy Warhol's famed 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million at auction on Monday, a record for a work by an American artist sold at auction. In this file photo taken on April 29, 2022 a man looks at Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' during Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art press preview at …

A photo of Andy Warhol and Chris Makos taken in 1982. Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York Pop artist Andy Warhol said, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, films and me, and there I am. For those who have wanted to get an overall view of the legendary …

Jared Leto confirms he will be play artist Andy Warhol in upcoming biopic

Jared Leto will also be seen as comic book character Michael Morbius in the thriller Morbius. Jared Leto will be essaying the role of revered artist Andy Warhol in an upcoming biopic. The multi-hyphenated personality produced and managed experimental band The Velvet Underground and also created a series of controversial paintings that depicted everything from Campbell’s soup cans to legendary …