Three Andy Warhol Dog Drawings Sell for over $50,000

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Dog (Cocker Spaniel) by Andy Warhol, circa 1980s sold for $18,750

Last night, Christie’s held a live and online auction to benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York. The evening featured 354 works by Warhol and raised over $17 million. Interesting to me were the three dog drawings.

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Dog by Andy Warhol, circa 1980s sold for $18,750

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Dog by Andy Warhol, circa 1980s sold for $16,250

You may remember the Cocker Spaniel. I believe it is Ginger, the dog of Warhol’s friend and Interview partner Peter Brant who encouraged Warhol to focus on pet portraits after he saw it.  I wrote about Ginger here and included her in  my “Dogs in Art” short film.

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Ginger by Andy Warhol, 1976

Also last night, an Andy Warhol butterfly silkscreen sold for $1,258,500.

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Endangered Species: San Francisco Silverspot by Andy Warhol, circa 1983 sold for $1,258,500.

Via CBS News.

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