A peek inside Warhol’s World

Get the travel bug with our latest online-only sale, Around The World in Andy Days, which takes place from 5-18 February. Take a peek inside Warhol’s world to see Polaroid photos, gelatin prints, drawings, and screenprints of the places Andy visited, such as the iconic interiors of the White House, or the places he dreamed of exploring, such as the cosmos. Below, see Warhol in his element, gallivanting around the globe, with quotes describing his extensive travels and interests from the artist and those closest to him.

ANDY AT THE WHITE HOUSE

‘Can you see the Blue Room with Campbell’s Soup Cans all over the walls? Because that’s what Foreign Heads of State should see, Campbell’s Soup Cans and Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. That’s America. That’s what should be in the White House.’
From The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol

ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES

‘Last Christmas, Andy Warhol went to Vail, not for the skiing but for the parties. “I had a great time,” says the non-skiing artist. “Everyone was there.”’
New York Magazine, Dec 29, 1980 - Jan 5, 1981

 

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Table Setting, 1980. Unique gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)

ANDY IN PARIS

'We made a lot of trips to Paris because of the movie [L’Amour], but we’d only go shopping during the lunch break. When we were getting things, they were dirt cheap. Of course shipping them back was expensive. But even that wasn’t so bad if you got one big crate and put everything in it at once, which is what we did.'
Fred Hughes, listed as ‘Warhol’s dapper young aide-de-camp’, in New York Magazine, Nov 11, 1971

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Sunbathers Along the Seine, circa 1980. Unique gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)

ANDY AND SCHALIMAR

'I switch perfumes all the time. If I've been wearing one perfume for three months, I force myself to give it up, even if I still feel like wearing it, so whenever I smell it again it will always remind me of those three months. I never go back to wearing it again; it becomes part of my permanent smell collection...'
From The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol. (In this piece, Warhol was cheekily referencing Shalimar, an iconic perfume by Guerlain, which debuted in 1925.)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Schalimar, circa 1958. Black ballpoint pen on paper, 23⅞ x 18 in. (60.6 x 57.8 cm.)

ANDY AND SITTING BULL

‘Among the vanishing populations [Warhol] catalogued were the American Indians, in a 1986 series of prints called, Cowboys and Indians. Images of a Northwest Coast Indian mask and a Plains Indian shield, in this series, represent Warhol’s interests as a collector, but also his conception of art as camouflage, protecting his pale skin, his resewn interior, and his nelly tribe from the imperial crucifier.’
Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol: A Biography. (Warhol created his portrait of Sitting Bull to originally be a part of his 1986 Cowboys and Indians portfolio.)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Sitting Bull (F. & S. IIIA.70), 1986. Screenprint in colors on board, one of a small number of impressions, 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm.)

Main image: Andy Warhol Abroad (executed circa 1979); unique Polaroid print; part of a set of two. Click here to see more by Warhol on Christies.com.