Silkscreen in colors. Signed and numbered. From an edition of 70 copies. On firm wove paper. 63.5 x 94 cm. Sheet: 82 x 112 cm.
Sheet 3 of the portfolio comprising a total of 4 color silkscreens. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Published by Editions Schellman & Klüser, Munich/New York (with the stamp on the reverse). [SM].
- Warhol makes Botticelli's Renaissance icon, the "Birth of Venus" (Uffizi, Florence), a pop art icon. - Warhol is a master of adaptation and alienation: closeup view, gaudy pop art colors and an execution in several color variants. - Confronting Renaissance and present age, originality and mass production, aura and adaptation, Warhol challenges our traditional ideas of art and creates a fascinating new concept. - Alongside masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Paulo Uccello and Leonardo da Vinci, Warhol's exploration of Sandro Botticelli's “Birth of Venus” is the most famous work in the series “Details of Renaissance Paintings”.
LITERATURE: Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi, Andy Warhol Prints. A catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, no. II.319. -- Forty are better than one. Edition Schellmann, 1969-2009, ed.by Jörg Schellmann, p. 345 (illu., presumably different copy).
