Sotheby’s has announced that its forthcoming Evening auction of Contemporary Art, to be held on Wednesday, February 27th during the company’s first stand-alone week of Winter Contemporary Art sales in London, will be highlighted by a late, rare trinity of canvases by Andy Warhol, entitled Three Self Portraits (1986). The works will be unveiled at Sotheby’s New York galleries on Saturday, January 19th.

Francis Outred, Head of Evening auctions, Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art department, said: “We are delighted to be able to handle these important self portraits by Andy Warhol which were acquired by the present owner directly from the artist’s landmark exhibition at Anthony d’Offay gallery, London in 1986. The transaction was completed the day before Warhol died tragically on 22nd February 1987. A trinity of self-portraits in the red, white and blue of the American flag, there could not be a more apt eulogy to the most important artist of the second half of the last century, the art world revolutionary who did more than any other to find a visual lexicon capable of documenting the changing landscape of post-war capitalist America. Other works from the landmark exhibition today grace the collections of some of the world’s most important institutions, such as the Tate in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.”

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