ANDY WARHOL | Lobster

Executed in 1982.This work is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol, twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., and numbered VF PA26.017 on the reverse.

The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, May 9, 2012, lot 144
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

During the last decade of his career, Andy Warhol introduced a large number of new themes and series to his already diverse oeuvre. In 1982, the year before he would produce his Paintings for Children that were shown in a room covered in an artist-designed wallpaper of fish, Warhol already experimented with smaller-sized canvasses depicting lobsters and crabs. He also went on to produce a cycle of large-scale paintings of Endangered Species, which just as Lobster were executed in bright colours using his signature silkscreen and acrylic technique.