Converse Sneaker Extra Special Value

This poster featuring Converse Sneaker Extra Special Value (1985–86) was produced in 1992, in conjunction with two concurrent Andy Warhol exhibitions at Gagosian—Late Paintings 1984–86 at the gallery’s former space on Wooster Street and Drawings at 980 Madison Avenue. The front features a large-scale painting by the artist of the titular footwear and the back details the exhibitions’ venues and dates.

Dimensions: 18 x 24 Inches

Medium: Offset lithograph print on thick semi-gloss poster paper.

Provenance: Authorized by The Gagosian Gallery and includes details of the 1993 exhibitions’ venues and dates on reverse. Comes with gallery certificate of authenticity.

Edition: Open

Year: 1993

Condition: Excellent - rare condition for its age

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. He drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter in his most famous works: his 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, for example. Rejecting the dominant painting and sculpting modes of his day, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His provocative successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. His works have sold for upwards of $100 million at auction.