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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
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