"Andy Warhol's Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)" 2007 Christie's (SOLD)
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[106] pp.
Christie's New York
2007
11 3/4" x 9 1/4"
Fine
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Published by Christies for the sale of Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), estimated at 25 to 30 million dollars (sold for $71,000,000 on May 16, 2007). Fabulous book with essays by Walter Hopps, "Warhol s Deaths and Disasters"; two essays by Robert Brown including "Green Car Crash" and "Death and Disasters: Warhol s Car Crashes", both superb; along with English translations of the Jean Jacques Lebel and Alain Jouffroy essays, including "Death in America", from an early Sonnabend catalogue. 40 full-page illustrations of the major works, in red, orange, blue, green, as well as ephemera from the original source material, quotes from interviews printed on glassine bound in. The catalogue book s penultimate chapter is the infamous television interview with Gene Swenson, "What is Pop?", wherein AW answers each question before it is asked, "Is pop art a style of " "YES." "Does your work " "NO." Endless "Uh Yes. Uh Maybe. Uh no." This later plagiarized by Godard in the "Eve Democracy" sequence of his 1969 film Weekend. Final essay is by Jeff Koons "Pontificating Warhol s Death", as well as an interview by him and Malanga. Andy at work silk-screening at the factory, orange, red, and blue paintings, all full-colour full-page. Sold out prior to the sale and unavailable since, as Christies is not allowed to sell its catalogues after the sale date for copyright reasons.