アンディ・ウォーホル「ロバート・メイプルソープ」1983年作 @ ハウザー&ワース・チューリッヒ Andy Warhol "Robert Mapplethorpe" 1983 @ Hauser & Wirth Zürich
「ハウザー&ワース」(ハウザー&ヴィルト)は現在、新設ギャラリーでウォーホルの非常に希少で保存状態の良い作品を展示しています。私はギャラリーオープン初日に訪れました。お金があれば、すぐにでも買いたいくらいです。
私の知り合いの日本のコレクターたちは、これほど象徴的な作品には全く興味を示していません。まあ、仕方ないですよね。
チューリッヒにいらっしゃる方は、ぜひ実物をご覧ください。縁に魅力的な指紋が刻まれています。
チューリッヒ湖とランドマークであるボー・オー・ラック ホテル、チューリッヒのハウザー&ヴィルトに近いバーンホフシュトラーセは、ギャラリーのアーティスト エステートによる展覧会の拠点となっています。
今日のおまけ:
近くのKunsthaus Zürichの現在
1963 @ Ferus Gallery L.A.
1965 @ Warhol Factory NY
Bob Dylan disliked the “Double Elvis” print by Andy Warhol and traded it to his manager, Albert Grossman, for a sofa.
Story:
In 1965, Andy Warhol gifted Bob Dylan one of his Elvis silkscreens. Dylan ended up driving home with the painting balanced on the roof of his car after it wouldn’t fit in the trunk.
Dylan later decided he didn’t like the painting. He traded it with his manager, Al Grossman, for a sofa. In 1988, Grossman’s wife sold the painting for 720.000 US$.
A similar painting from the same Elvis series sold for 81.9 million US$ at Christie’s in 2014.
Warhol in his 1980 memoir, POPism, would later recount: “I liked Dylan, the way he created a brilliant new style… I even gave him one of my silver Elvis paintings in the days when he was first around. Later on, though, I got paranoid when I heard rumors that he had used the Elvis as a dart board up in the country… Ten years later, I ran into him at a party. He admitted that he’d given the painting away to his manager, Al Grossman, and then he shook his head regretfully and said, But if you ever gave me another one, Andy, I wouldn’t make that mistake again…’“
The painting is now in the collection of MoMA, New York.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963. Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen. 81 7⁄8 x 52 3⁄4 in (208 x 134 cm.) Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 May 2019 @ Christie’s in New York. Sold for US$53,000,000.