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Andy Warhol
Black and White Disaster1962

Not on view
Silkscreen print, five-by-five grid of repeated black-and-white images of a seated figure, progressively darkening from top to bottom until nearly all-black

Andy Warhol, Black and White Disaster, 1962, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Leo Castelli Gallery and Ferus Gallery through the Contemporary Art Council, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Andy Warhol
United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, 1928–1987, active New York City
Title
Black and White Disaster
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1962
Period
20th century
Medium
Acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas
Dimensions
98 × 74 × 2 in. (248.92 × 187.96 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Leo Castelli Gallery and Ferus Gallery through the Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.65.13
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice. Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Grundberg, Andy; Gauss, Kathleen McCarthy. Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Beyeler, Ernst, Georg Frei, Peter Gidal, and Edward Sanders. Andy Warhol - Series and Singles. Riehen/Basel: Fondation Beyeler, 2000.
  • Packer, Lelia, and Jennifer Sliwka. Monochrome: Painting in Black and White. London: The National Gallery Company, 2017.
  • Brougher, Kerry. Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996.
Copyright
© 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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