Andy Warhol (after) - Sandro Boticelli, Birth of Venus

After Andy Warhol & Sunday B. Morning, Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 2026.

Screen print in color, 65.3 x 96.5 cm. On the back stamped: Published by Sunday B. Morning" and "fill in your own signature" as well as numbered.

Provenance: Acquired from the publisher.

This print is an authorized version by Sunday B. Morning. The rights to these prints were purchased in the 2000s by the Dutch owners and may officially be reproduced and are therefore authorized.

Biography
The American Pop Art artist Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 as Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents are Czechoslovakian immigrants. He first trained as a window dresser before studying art history as well as pictorial design, sociology and psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh from 1945 to 1949. He then moved to New York, where he began to call himself Andy Warhol.
Until 1960 Warhol worked as a freelance commercial artist for fashion magazines, as an illustrator, and as a window dresser. The Art Directors Club awarded him medals in 1952 and 1957 for his design of newspaper advertisements. In 1952 the Hugo Gallery hosted Andy Warhol’s first exhibition, "Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote".
In 1962 the first series was created with "Campbell’s Soup Cans" and "Coca-Cola Bottles" as well as silkscreens with the motif of dollar bills. His studio, in which many friends and assistants worked, he called the "Factory". His art now shaped the use of well-known motifs or signs of everyday mass culture, and he employed mechanized serial production techniques, such as screen printing, which had previously been deemed unartistic.
In 1962 Andy Warhol participated in the exhibition "The New Realists" in New York. In the following years Warhol’s choice of subjects darkened. Series with death and catastrophe images emerged. In the silkscreen process and deliberately in the poor image quality of newspaper printing, he chose airplane crashes, traffic accidents, crime, atomic bomb explosions. Also with cardboard and wooden sculptures that precisely reproduce commercial packaging, Warhol criticized consumer and mass culture. With his works, Andy Warhol helped shape Pop Art.
In the 1960s Warhol also explored the medium of film. He developed a special film aesthetics using simple techniques, long static camera shots, and the omission of cuts and editing. In 1963 the silent films "Sleep", "Kiss" and "Eat" were made, and in 1964 "Empire". The following feature films were also shown at the Cannes Film Festival, such as "Chelsea Girls" from 1966. From 1966 Warhol also worked with the rock band Velvet Underground on shows for nightclubs.
In the 1970s the Pop Art artist transferred Polaroid photos of famous personalities into screen prints on canvas, including portraits such as "Elvis Presley" (1964), "Jackie Kennedy" (1965), "Marilyn Monroe" (1967) and "Mao Tse-tung" (1972).
In 1968 Andy Warhol was shot and seriously wounded by Valerie Solanas. In 1984 Warhol collaborated on projects with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
Andy Warhol died on February 22, 1987 in New York."