487 - Andy Warhol, “Committee 2000”, signed colour silkscreen print from 1982, in a gallery frame

Andy Warhol, “Committee 2000”, signed colour silkscreen print from 1982, in a gallery frame Andy Warhol, 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York, here: “Committee 2000”, colour silkscreen print, 76.2 x 50.8 cm, on sturdy Lenox museum board, numbered 361/2000, signed, drystamp of the New York printer Rupert Jasen Smith on the left, in excellent condition, mounted on a passepartout and set in a gallery frame, WVZ no. Feldman/Schellmann II.289 About the work: This work was commissioned and published by a Munich-based group called Committee 2000. The aim was to raise funds through the sale of the prints for upcoming projects to mark the turn of the millennium.For this, Warhol created/used a still life depicting the aftermath of a party. The image shows three champagne glasses (one of which has been knocked over), confetti and a box bearing the inscription ‘Committee 2000’. The image strikes a balance between the glamour of hedonistic nights (inspired by Warhol’s time at New York’s Studio 54) and a subtle critique of consumerism, which addresses the transience and inner emptiness that follow excess.