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Andy Warhol — Daily News (F. & S. IIIB.1)
Andy Warhol

Daily News (F. & S. IIIB.1)

Andy Warhol's "Daily News (F. & S. IIIB.1)" is a screenprint from 1962 that exemplifies his appropriation of mass media imagery, featuring a newspaper photograph enlarged and reproduced in vivid, contrasting colors. The work reflects Warhol's fascination with the relationship between art and consumer culture, transforming a transient source of information into a fine art object through the mechanical processes of silk screening. By elevating a mundane daily newspaper image to gallery status, Warhol challenges conventional distinctions between high art and popular culture while examining themes of repetition, reproduction, and the commodification of visual experience.

Medium
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, the full sheet.

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Evening & Day Editions

January 23, 2025

Lot 108

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Andy Warhol, Daily News (F. & S. IIIB.1)

Andy Warhol's "Daily News (F. & S. IIIB.1)" is a screenprint from 1962 that exemplifies his appropriation of mass media imagery, featuring a newspaper photograph enlarged and reproduced in vivid, contrasting colors. The work reflects Warhol's fascination with the relationship between art and consumer culture, transforming a transient source of information into a fine art object through the mechanical processes of silk screening. By elevating a mundane daily newspaper image to gallery status, Warhol challenges conventional distinctions between high art and popular culture while examining themes of repetition, reproduction, and the commodification of visual experience.

Medium
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, the full sheet.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Repetition technique, 20th Century, commercial art style, Contemporary Culture, Satirical aesthetic, American Artist, Mass Media Commentary, Pop Art, newspaper imagery, Silkscreen Printing

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Sebastián In Situ, Alex Capecelatro, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Derek Jones, Lisa Rembrandt, Nicholas Blum, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Nick Phoenix