“Andy Warhol – The 1950s Drawings from Daniel Blau” at the Dorotheum in Vienna on March 27 offers an extraordinary selection of works on paper with moderate starting prices. The 221 drawings are executed in pencil or ink, sometimes accented with gouache or collaged with adhesive tape, with starting prices from €800 to €4,000. Renowned Munich gallery owner Daniel Blau, son of painter Georg Baselitz, discovered the drawings in 2011 in Warhol’s personal estate at the Warhol Foundation Archive and acquired them. They have since been displayed in major touring exhibitions in Europe and the US. Blau is now parting with his Munich gallery. A second auction on March 28 features Daniel Blau’s collection of works on paper by George Grosz, Markus Lüpertz, Per Kirkeby, Neal Fox and others. After online bidding pre-bids lots will be auctioned in a virtual auction room at the Dorotheum, the largest auction house in central Europe. Pictured here is Untitled (Angel Playing the Trumpet) a c1955 ink on paper.
UPDATE: THIS MADE €9,888. ALL THE DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION SOLD. An astounding 4,500 bids were submitted, sparking intense bidding duels in the virtual auction room, which lasted seven hours and continued late into the evening.
