ウォーホル初期２作品、計１．１億円で落札　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、米ニューヨークでフィリップスの競売に掛けられ、自画像「Ｎｏｓｅｐｉｃｋｅｒ １： Ｗｈｙ Ｐｉｃｋ ｏｎ Ｍｅ（鼻をほじる人１：なんで俺）」が手数料込みで４９万１４００ドル（約６９００万円）、「Ｌｉｖｉｎｇ Ｒｏｏｍ（居間）」が３１万５０００ドル（約４４００万円）で落札された。（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。
　今回の落札額は、ウォーホルの他の作品のものを大幅に下回った。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）超で落札されている。
　ウォーホラ氏は、今回は初期の作品で、ウォーホルはシルクスクリーンが有名だったと指摘。「これらの作品を世の中に送り出すことができてうれしい」と語った。このほかに８作品を所有しており、出品を続けると述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/11/17-13:17）

Two early Andy Warhol paintings were sold at auction in New York on Tuesday by the family of the pop art visionary, the first in a series of little-known works that will reach the art market, his nephew told AFP.
The 1948 self-portrait Nosepicker 1: Why Pick on Me went for $491,400 including fees, while Living Room, also from 1948, sold for $315,000 at a sale organized by New York's Phillips.
The prices were far removed from the stratospheric amounts paid for his more famous works, such as Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, which shows the likeness of actress Marilyn Monroe and was auctioned in May for $195 million -- a record for a 20th-century artwork.
This is early work. He's mostly known for his silkscreens but we're very happy with sending these works out into the world, said artist James Warhola, the 67-year-old son of Warhol's older brother.
They're gonna make some collector very happy, said Warhola, who put the works up for auction.
They're very rare. And they're the first of our collection of 10 pieces. So we'll continue selling them.
The works date back to 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 before he left to try his luck in New York.
First working as an advertising artist, he broke through in the 1950s and then rose to fame in the 1960s, thanks to unique works exploring consumer society, advertising and the notion of celebrity.
The platinum-and-silver-wigged pop artist died in 1987.
According to his nephew Warhola, who kept the a in the family name, the works sold on Tuesday may interest collectors who own a lot of Warhol, and they have to fill out their collection with something very early.
They were in the family for 70 years, (but) none of us could afford to buy them individually, so we have put them to auction, he said.
Both paintings had almost been lost. At the end of the 1970s, the Warhola family had their car stolen, with the two works inside.
The car was eventually recovered with the paintings unscathed, the Phillips auction house said.