Andy Warhol — Late Paintings For Sale

Andy Warhol — Late Paintings

Andy Warhol's late paintings, produced across the final decade of his life, represent one of the most experimental and often underappreciated chapters of his career. Freed from the immediate demands of Pop portraiture, Warhol turned toward abstraction and process-driven technique, beginning with the Oxidation Paintings of 1977–78 — made by coating canvas with copper-based metallic paint, then applying urine, whose uric acid reacted with the copper to produce mottled, unrepeatable surface patterns. He continued in this vein with the Yarn paintings of 1983, made using paint-soaked yarn pressed onto canvas, and the large-scale Rorschach paintings of 1984, created by folding and pressing a paint-loaded canvas in half to generate a symmetrical blot in the manner of the psychiatric inkblot test.

The final years also produced two of his most ambitious projects: a series of more than 100 variations on Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, made between 1984 and 1986 and first exhibited in Milan opposite the church housing Leonardo's original mural, and a run of collaborative paintings made with the younger artist Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1984 and 1985, combining Warhol's silkscreened imagery with Basquiat's hand-painted marks. Alongside these, Warhol revisited his own image in the 1986 Fright Wig self-portraits and applied military camouflage patterns to canvases in his final completed series. Taken together, these late works reveal an artist still restlessly experimenting with process, collaboration and surface into the last months of his life.

Each work at Guy Hepner is presented with full provenance and authentication.