Lot 190: ART KANE (1925–1995) Andy Warhol as the Golden Boy, 1962 dye-transfer pr

ART KANE (1925–1995) Andy Warhol as the Golden Boy, 1962 dye-transfer print signed in black ink (recto); inscribed ‘To Arville from Art/ Nov 77’ in blue ink (margin) image: 27 ¬ x 21 O in. (70.2 x 54.7 cm.) sheet: 30 O x 27 in. (77.5 x 68.5 cm.)

PROVENANCE: Gifted by the artist to a Private Collector, New York, early 1970s; acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014. LITERATURE: Magazine advertisement for Champions Paper, 1962 (variation). In 1962 Art Kane, at the time a remarkably young art director in New York, photographed artist Andy Warhol gilded in metallic spray-paint from the neck up in exchange for a drawing of Kane made by Warhol. Kane’s fnal photograph, a variation of the present lot, and Warhol’s drawing, appeared together in an advertising campaign insert for Champions Paper, in a perfect exposition of both artists’ daft traversals between commerce and fne arts. In 1962 Warhol abandoned his career as a commercial designer and embarked upon a new role as a prominent Pop Art fgure. This collaborative advertising campaign included written descriptions of each artist, written by the other. Here, Kane wrote of Warhol, ‘I think of Andy as a Greek from the 4th century B.C. He’s as classic as the gold paint he prefers to use’. 189 (actual size)