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Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings

From the late 1940s until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol produced over 9,000 paintings and sculptures and nearly 12,000 drawings. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings is an ongoing research project sponsored by the Foundation, dedicated to documenting and publishing all of the paintings, sculptures, and drawings that Warhol produced during four enormously productive and intensely inventive decades. Five volumes spanning the 1960s and 1970s have been published to date. The sixth volume, now in preparation, will record Warhol’s paintings of 1978-1980. Four subsequent volumes will document the paintings and sculptures of the 1980s, and a series of volumes are planned that will be dedicated to Warhol’s drawings.

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné was initiated in 1977 by the Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann, when Warhol was not quite fifty years old and in the middle of his career. In 1993, six years after Warhol’s death, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts partnered with Thomas Ammann Fine Art on the project, and assumed full stewardship of the Catalogue Raisonné in 2004.

Published by Phaidon Press, each volume of the Catalogue Raisonné is profusely illustrated, acutely detailed, and contextually rich. Every work is reproduced in color and catalogued according to the most exacting scholarly methods, based on a first-hand examination of the work. Catalogue entries incorporate the ownership and exhibition history of the work as well as the literature in which the work has been reproduced and cited. Extensive narrative texts provide a critical catalogue of the genealogy and chronology of each series, related works of art, the artist’s working methods, and the reception of the body of work during and after Warhol’s lifetime.

For more than twenty-five years, the editors of the Catalogue Raisonné and a team of trained researchers have scoured the secondary literature including exhibition and sales catalogues, examined thousands of works of art, reviewed the artist’s diaries, archives and photographs, and interviewed his assistants, colleagues, portrait sitters, and friends to understand and elucidate Warhol’s materials, techniques, and artistic process. As the most comprehensive chronicle of Warhol’s painting career to date and the first systematic study of his studio practices, the Catalogue Raisonné is indispensable for scholars, curators, collectors, students, and ardent fans of his work.

Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture 1961–1963

 

Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture 1961-1963 (Phaidon 2002); studio: 1342 Lexington Avenue and the Firehouse; 546 entries, featuring Comic Strips, Campbell’s Soup Cans, Dance Diagrams, Do It Yourself, Marilyn, Elvis, Liz, Death and Disaster, Ethel Scull and Photobooth Portraits.


Volume 2: Paintings and Sculptures 1964–1969

 

Volume 2: Paintings and Sculptures 1964-1969 (Phaidon 2004) in two books; studio: the Factory, 231 East 47th Street; 1500 entries, featuring Most Wanted Men, Box Sculptures, Jackie, Flowers, Cow Wallpaper and Silver Clouds.


Volume 3: Paintings and Sculptures 1970–1974

 

Volume 3: Paintings and Sculptures 1970-1974 (Phaidon 2010); studio: 33 Union Square West; 703 entries, featuring Rain Machine and other sculptures, Mao, Man Ray, and 450 commissioned portraits.


Volume 4: Paintings late 1974–1976

 

Volume 4: Paintings late 1974-1976 (Phaidon 2014); studio: 860 Broadway; 607 entries, featuring Ladies and Gentlemen, Studio Still Lives, Invisible Sculpture, Russell Means (The American Indian), and 222 commissioned portraits.


Volume 5: Paintings 1976–1978

 

Volume 5: Paintings 1976-1978 (Phaidon 2018) in two books; studio: 860 Broadway; 687 entries, featuring Skulls, Hammer and Sickle paintings, Athletes, Torsos and Sex Parts, Piss, Oxidation and Cum paintings, Self-Portraits, and 81 commissioned portraits.


Volume 6: Paintings and Sculptures 1978–1980

Volume 6: Paintings and Sculptures 1978-1980 (Phaidon forthcoming); studio: 860 Broadway; over 700 entries, featuring Shadows, Studio 54, Retrospective and Reversal Series, Hearts, Gems, Diamond Dust Shadows and 189 commissioned portraits.


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