アンディ・ウォーホル初期作品、競売へ　おいが出品

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】ポップアートの巨匠アンディ・ウォーホルの初期作品２点が１５日、米ニューヨークで競売に掛けられる。ウォーホルのおいが出品したもので、両作品の出品は初めて。（写真は米ニューヨークで競売に掛けられるアンディ・ウォーホルの作品「Ｎｏｓｅｐｉｃｋｅｒ １： Ｗｈｙ Ｐｉｃｋ ｏｎ Ｍｅ」（左）と「Ｌｉｖｉｎｇ Ｒｏｏｍ」の前に立つジェームズ・ウォーホラ氏）
　出品したのはウォーホルの兄の息子で、イラストレーターのジェームズ・ウォーホラ氏（６７）。ウォーホルは本名から「ａ」を取った名前を使用していた。
　作品はいずれも、ウォーホルが２０歳の美術学生だった１９４８年に故郷ペンシルベニア州ピッツバーグで描いたもの。
　競売会社フィリップスによれば、落札予想価格は自画像「Ｎｏｓｅｐｉｃｋｅｒ １： Ｗｈｙ Ｐｉｃｋ ｏｎ Ｍｅ（鼻をほじる人１：なんで俺）」が３０万～５０万ドル（約４２００万～７０００万円）、「Ｌｉｖｉｎｇ Ｒｏｏｍ（居間）」が２５万～４５万ドル（約３５００万～６３００万円）。
　１９７０年代後半に２点が載せられていた車ごと盗まれたが、車は無事戻り、作品も無傷だったという。
　ウォーホラ氏はＡＦＰに対し、「両親も亡くなり、この２点を売ったお金を６人きょうだいで分け合おうと思う」と話した。
　ウォーホルのマリリン・モンローの肖像画は５月、１億９５００万ドル（現在のレートで約２７０億円）超で落札された。
　今回出品される２点はそこまでの高値は付かないとみられている。しかし、ウォーホラ氏は「叔父の作品にこれほど高値が付くようになったなんて、信じられない」「アンディ叔父さんは喜んでいると思う」と話した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/11/16-13:40）

Andy Warhol's nephew will put two works by his late pop artist uncle on the market for the first time Tuesday in New York, with both expected to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction.
The two paintings were created when Warhol, the son of a working-class family of Eastern European immigrants, was a 20-year-old art student in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The self-portrait Nosepicker 1: Why Pick on Me and Living Room, both from 1948, will be auctioned off Tuesday evening at New York's Phillips.
Warhol's much more famous Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, which shows the likeness of iconic actress Marilyn Monroe, was auctioned off in May for $195 million -- a record for 20th century artwork.
Phillips estimates that Nosepicker 1 will sell for between $300,000 and $500,000 -- while Living Room will go for $250,000-$450,000.
These two paintings have been in the family for over 70 years. And we've enjoyed them for many years, said James Warhola, the 67-year-old nephew of artist, illustrator and filmmaker Warhol, who died in 1987.
Warhola's father was the older brother of Warhol -- who chose to drop the a from his last name.
My parents have passed, so it's time that we will be selling them and splitting the proceeds Warhola told AFP, noting he has six siblings.
The youthful self-portrait of Warhol with a finger up his nose, as well as the painting of his Pittsburgh living room, have been exhibited several times around the world, but nearly vanished.
According to Phillips, in the late 1970s the Warhol family had their car stolen with the two works inside.
Fortunately for the family and for art enthusiasts across the globe, the car was recovered, with the artworks completely unscathed, the auction house said.
These early Warhol works are not expected to reach anywhere close to the soaring price of the Marilyn Monroe pop art image sold last May 9 at auction.
We cannot believe that his artwork has become so valuable, Warhola told AFP.
In fact, I think my uncle Andy would be, like, flattered.