ANDY WARHOL "SAILOR" DRAWING, 1950Andy Warhol (1928 1987) is the most influential and valuable American artist of the 20th century. Caviar20 has been championig his inimitable works on paper from the 1950s. We believe this is an important, and for the time being, accessible and under appreciated part of his legacy. This masterfully executed portrait shows a lanky young man propped against a railing. With ideal features and a timeless elegance, the figure commands the composition with

reducing them to their essence or transforming them into abstract allusions

"Le Sablier 3"

Signed "Alex Katz" and numbered "16/90" by the artist in pencil

Quite rare

Although the artist encountered a lot of interference with his pending designs due to copyright of the team's logos and from other TTC bigwigs (who insisted that the player be depicted wearing helmets) the ambitious and impressive public art project finally debuted to great fanfare in April 1985

Marked intricate line-work along with fragmented and overlapping geometric forms

The paper records Katz's hand in ways that are both direct and surprising

Painted circa 1987

172-173 (2003)

Sitwell had published a book of abstract poems titled Façade

Negative space and framing are used to conceal the subject’s identity

it has been an incredibly fruitful period