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

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.

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

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.

Ginger by Andy Warhol, 1976

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

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

Via CBS News.

November 13, 2012
Andy Warhol’s Little Red Hen Book

I knew Andy Warhol began his career illustrating advertisements of women's shoes
. But I had no idea he also dabbled in children's books. A copy of his illustrated version of The Little Red Hen created for the Best in Children’s Books issued by the Doubleday Book Club between 1957 and 1961 will be auctioned at Bloomsbury Auction House in NY on December 9. Estimated at $500 – $600, it sounds like a steal to me.

Visit Bloomsbury Auctions for more information. Via BBC News.

P.S. In case you don't remember this classic fable, "it extols the virtues of hard work by showing the hen toiling in a field while a lazy cat, dog, and mouse look on," a lesson Andy embodied throughout his prolific career.

November 19, 2009
Andy Warhol’s Japanese Dog Toy Polaroid

Andy Warhol's Polaroids at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in NYC until January 10, 2009.

Or view online.

Brilliant as always.

January 5, 2009
Campbell Soup for the Stock Market’s Soul

Small Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Pepper Pot),” by Andy Warhol

Bloomberg reports:

“The S&P 500 retreated 106.59 points to 1,106.42, the most since Oct. 26, 1987. Only one company gained, Campbell Soup Co.”

Are people heading to their bunkers with canned goods? Don’t forget plenty of water and doggie treats.

Via Wonkette by way of Andrew Sullivan.

September 29, 2008
Happy Birthday Andy Warhol

Andy and Archie, his beloved muse and alter-ego, by Jack Mitchell via The Long and Short of It All.

Andy Warhol would have turned 80 today. It's so tragic to think about the life and art he missed out on. And to wonder what would Andy Warhol have done with the Internet, YouTube, Photoshop…reality TV?! The thought of Andy Warhol in the digital age is mind blowing. The world would be a very different place.

Here is an awesome video of Factory footage for The Party, a song by Cleveman and Rössel of legendary Swedish underground band Dom Dummaste (OK, I've never heard of them but they're a new favorite).

Via very cool blog, Nag on the Lake, who also has some more excellent Andy Warhol links from Slow Learning, like what to wear to Andy's birthday party.

Other Andy Warhol links:

See more dog (and cat) art works here.

See Ginger, a spectacular Cocker Spaniel silk screen, and his Chanel No. 5 posters here.

Update 8.8.08: It seems Andy Warhol did have a chance to embrace MTV in 1985 before he died with a show called Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh will be showing the pilot and several episodes throughout the weekend starting today.

Also admission today is $0.80 and free if you're 80 years old.

Via IheartPGH.com, an all things Pittsburgh blog with many more Andy Warhol birthday links.

August 6, 2008
Andy Warhol’s Ginger

Driving by the Weidman Gallery on Santa Monica Blvd. yesterday, I nearly rear-ended a car. Behold what was in the window, Andy Warhol's Chanel No. 5 poster. It's over 5 feet tall and it's spectacular!

It reminded me that I've been meaning to post one of the treasures I discovered while working on my film Dogs in Art, Andy Warhol's Ginger.

Ginger by Andy Warhol, 1976

I've done a lot of research on Andy Warhol's dogs via the Web, and I've never seen this image before. I like to think I am debuting on the Internet today. Btw, I found it in the book Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today by Edgar Peters Bowron, Carolyn Rose Rebbert, Robert Rosenblum, and William Secord.

The painting was done originally for Peter Brant who owned the beautiful Cocker Spaniel and was Warhol's friend and Interview partner. After seeing the finished work, he encouraged Warhol to focus on pet portraits as a new revenue stream. This lead to Warhol using stuffed animals as subjects (not toys but taxidermy). Not exactly what Brant had in mind, I bet, but creative none-the-less. Read more about Warhol's dog (and cat) paintings in Vincent Fremont's 2006 article on Artnet.

More Warhol Chanel No. 5 bottles via Andy Blog.

Looking at a Warhol I have never seen before, as well as drooling over his Chanel No. 5 poster in the window, reminds me anew how brilliant Warhol was with color. Sometimes I get desensitized to his mega-talent because his images are so iconic. They are almost hard to see anymore, because I can view them in my mind's eye without really bringing a fresh look to them.

Ginger is just perfect and so are the Chanel silkscreens. All the hype aside, Warhol really was a true genius.

If you're in Los Angeles, stop by the Michael Kohn Gallery for their current exhibition of Andy Warhol's black and white photographs from 1976-1987. I'm trying to find out if there are any dogs in the show. I will let you know.

In other news, color lovers – like Rebecca Collins — will enjoy two great color links I found today:

ColorFlip.com by Rafael Rozendaal is a mesmerizing Friday time waster via Angie McKaig's blog (she's the CEO of the Pampered Puppy, but this blog is more web biz than puppy bling.)

And Katherine Tyrrell's recent super-comprehensive post, Describing a Color Space – There's More Than One Color Wheel, on her informative Making a Mark blog.

July 18, 2008
Marion Morrison’s Old Fashioned Pop Art

Zorro

As I’ve mentioned here before, Photoshop has done a real number on Pop Art. The simplicity with which one can Warholize an image has diminished Pop’s impact as a genre. But artist Marion Morrison keeps the Pop spirit alive by doing things the old fashioned way – which is a bit disturbing to consider – when did Pop Art become so retro? Anyway, Morrison uses acrylics on large canvas to create her "in your face" life size pup portraits and has been collected by dog lovers all over North America for the last 7 years.

I think she does a wonderful job getting each of her subject’s expressions just right. You can really sense their personalities. And her mastery of light and color are simply wonderful. She says that she is inspired by another dog pop artist, Ron Burns, but I think her works stand on their own as true originals in the Pop tradition and I am a big fan! To order a portrait of your pet visit Morrison’s Pup Art Studio.

Misty

Mulligan

Coco & Chanel

Ellie-May

Beaudiddly

Arthur

Speaking of Pop Art, did you ever wonder exactly how Andy Warhol created his silkscreened masterpieces? Click here and see his process revealed step-by-step in a fascinating interactive lesson courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum.

March 18, 2008
Canis Major: Andy Warhol’s Dogs and Cats (And Other Party Animals.)

Andy Warhol (Artist, with his dog Archie), 1973, Photograph © Jack Mitchell

I think The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is one of the true gems of the art world. Its intimate size, the context of the city he was born in, and the comprehensive yet wildly creative displays make it a sheer pleasure to visit.

Now, The Warhol has mounted a show that’s right up my alley and I wish I could blink my eyes and be back in Pittsburgh this week to experience Canis Major: Andy Warhol’s Dogs and Cats (And Other Party Animals). Oh, and in my wish I’d take all my Dog Art Today readers too.

Since a giant field trip to the ‘Burgh is impossible, here are some examples of the pets who passed through Warhol’s life and work.

Portrait of Maurice by Andy Warhol, painting-silkscreen, 1976

Dog (Great Dane) painting by Andy Warhol, 1976

Dachshund (Archie), 1976, synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. (Via The Long and Short of it All.)

One Blue Pussy by Andy Warhol, 1954

Red Sam by Andy Warhol, 1954

Andy Warhol and Archie sit for a press photo in New York. (Via The Long and Short of it All.)

Dog photograph by Andy Warhol

Dachshund Photograph of Archie by Andy Warhol, 1976

Portrait of Andy Warhol by Jamie Wyeth, 1976 (via Art Dog Blog. I’m not sure if it’s in the show, but I had to include it here — wonderful!)

There is also an awesome interactive element to the exhibit. Weekend visitors are shown how to paint Warhol style portraits of homeless animals from the Animal Friends shelter in Ohio Township in order to help the animals find homes. Already several dogs and cats have been adopted.

Portraits of a rabbit, a cat, and a dog from Animal Friends were painted in Warhol style for the exhibition.

This exhibit that combines Andy Warhol’s passion for animals, a chance to make your own Warhol portrait, and, quite possibly, adopt a pet in need of a home is a brilliant tribute to the man who once wrote, “I never met a pet I didn’t like.” I didn’t think I could admire Andy Warhol more. I was wrong. I love that he loved pets so much and I love that his foundation continues to think like he did. What a truly awesome legacy!

Read more about the exhibition in Linda Wilson Fuoco’s Pittburgh Post-Gazette article, “Animal Magnetism: Warhol Museum Going to the Dogs…and Cats.” The exhibition runs until May 4, 2008.

P.S. Learn more about Warhol’s silkscreening process here.

February 19, 2008
Rebecca Collins: Almost Famous

You know the saying, “Everyone is famous by 15 people on the Internet.” Rebecca and Dan Collins of Dallas, TX have managed to transcend their 15 people with a unique approach to dog art. Yes, they started out “Warholizing” dogs in 1998, but now they offer several unique styles that set them apart from the ubiquitous Photoshop filter look. My favorite is Rebecca’s Painterly Style in which she incorporates hand drawn lines and pixel painting to create true originals. To memorialize your pet with an Artpaw painting visit www.artpaw.com

March 14, 2007