Comments on: A Modern Day “Amorsolo” Country Scene…

By: zareena talat

zareena talat — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:54:51 +0000

this painting is just looking like a photo not painting.

By: Maria Isabel Rodrigo

Maria Isabel Rodrigo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:26:19 +0000

Very nice MM! I do take similar pictures too whenever its harvest time in Ramon, Isabela for personal hobby and to quench my husband’s longing for home. Just what is it in the countryside scenes that made it very ‘Amosoloesque’? I love it.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:07:20 +0000

Jody, MANY MANY Thanks for looking this up, I missed your comments a few days ago and have just today remembered to go back and check this post. Thank you.

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:14:40 +0000

Marketman I forget to add that realised price with Christies reflects price plus commission.

I also meant to say that condition has much to do with value.

Best

Jody

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:06:28 +0000

Marketman. I have been using Artfact as the Artnet database was still down this morning. I have been unable to find any item with the dimensions you give. This has no great significance as the Artnet database is far superior to the competition. The first item later sold in Sothebys, London for 58000 pounds on Oct 15, 2007. There seems to be enormous spreads with Warhol. I would also like to say that I am foremost a rare book guy who buys and sells art (and anything else that come my way) when opportunity arises. LOL

I believe condition and documented provenance would add greatly to value.

Lot 140: ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Auction House: Christie’s

Sept 15. 2004
Description: Absolut Vodka
stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamps and numbered 01.004 (on the reverse)
brush and synthetic polymer on hand made paper
31 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (80 x 60.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1985.
Realised Price :16730 dollars
Estimated: 12000-18000

Lot 216: POSTER: D’APRES ANDY WARHOL (1930-1987) ABSOLUMENT. 1994. 68×46 inches.

Auction Galleries: Swann Galleries
Description: D’APRES ANDY WARHOL (1930-1987) ABSOLUMENT. 1994.
68 1/2×46 1/4 inches.
Condition A: wrinkles and abrasions in image; minor tears at edges. Paper.
In 1983 Michel Roux, the CEO of Carillon, the company that imported Absolut vodka to the United States, commissioned Andy Warhol to do a painting. “Over dinner one night, Warhol tells Michel that he’s enthralled by the artfulness of the Absolut bottle . . . Warhol proposes painting his own interpretation of the Absolut Bottle . . . when Warhol was finished, Roux was as surprised as everyone else to see the ‘black’ Absolut bottle, but he loved it and thought it would make a great Absolut ad” (Absolut p. 65). The image was a smashing success and became the start of the, now-famous “Absolut Art” series. When it first appeared, the ad campaign was considered too “New Yorkish” (ibid.) and did not appear in France (this in spite of the fact that Warhol was already known in Paris for his 1983 ad for Perrier). In 1994, Paris’ Laville Bastille gallery held an exhibition of the works of twenty contemporary artists. They received permission from Absolut to use the Warhol image on their posters, which were displayed on the advertising kiosks around Paris which were reserved for advertising cultural events. Given the small numbers of these public hoardings, there was probably a very small print run of the image.

Realised Price: 750
Estimate: 800-1200

Best

Jody

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:21:47 +0000

Hi Jody, it’s framed so best I can figure it is 44 x 36 inches, including the white border. Signed in wide pencil? on the lower right hand side. Poster is stamped with (c) Andy Warhol 1985 on the lower right hand edge… thanks. :)

By: Jody

Jody — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:53:12 +0000

MarketmanI will not be able to get into the database until Tuesday, ( because of the 4th of July). I will be able to give you the last three or four action results from Christies and Swann Galleries here in New York City. What are the measurements and does the text come in Italian?

Jody

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:37:49 +0000

Jody, any idea what a signed Andy Warhol Absolute Vodka serigraph or lithograph would command these days? We bought one from a “garage” sale of Jeremiah Tower (the Chef, ex-Chez Panisse) several years ago. It went from Warhol to Tower to us. :)

By: anna banana

anna banana — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:50:06 +0000

Wow I love the picture MM! It’s sooo good one can almost blow it out and frame it!

By: Jody

Jody — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:21:29 +0000

You are absolutely correct Marketman and certainly if one wants to sell a painting or a book at auction, Christies or Sothebys are the venues. The minimums for a single item are often quite high and of course the House fees are drastically higher.

I attended the auction in DC and managed to buy some old China Trade paintings of the Treaty Ports. These paintings were churned out after the opium wars by Chinese painters for the tourist trade, and it was possible a few years ago to buy one for a few hundred dollars. I thought I would also snag the two Amorsolo paintings but I was elbowed out of the way by a Filipina (no more than 35) who eventually went toe to toe with a phone bidder, and eventually prevailed. I found out later that the young woman is married to a Filipino, who works as a bond trader with Cantor and Fitzgerald. I might be wrong but I am guessing that this is the demographic from where the buyers of medium range Asian art come from.