“Death was abstract to Andy. It was a thing he was never really articulate about, except through his paintings.” —Vincent Fremont
Warhol mania continues! Andy Warhol’s dominance of the art market – not to mention of the art world and popular culture – continues to both amaze and delight. For Phillips’ recent 20th Century & Contemporary Sale [in which destruction was something of a theme], Vincent Fremont – former executive studio manager of Warhol’s Factory and later the co-founder of the Warhol Foundation – spoke insightfully about the prescient vision of Warhol’s ‘Death and Disaster’ series reflecting our society’s obsession with violence, as well as about Warhol’s own ambivalence towards death, despite his own close brush with a violent one.