Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) is a 1963 silkscreen painting by an American pop artist, Andy Warhol. It is currently in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran.[1]
History
During 1970s Iran's oil revenue had increased and the king and queen of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba decided to establish a museum of contemporary art in order to modernize their country.[2][3] Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) was among the paintings that Tony Shafrazi, the Iranian-born American art dealer, bought for the collection of this museum.[4]
At that time, Andy Warhol was interested in the idea and painted portraits of the king and his wife.[3]
Style
Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) depicts two images in sequence, recorded by a documentary photographer, silk-screened in black ink on a purple ground.[5]
According to Tony Shafrazi, Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) is one of the greatest works of Warhol. Shafrazi estimates the painting's value at 70 million dollars.[4]
Notes
- ^ Salas & Institute 2007, p. 148.
- ^ Dehghan 2012.
- ^ a b Polsky 2009, p. 171.
- ^ a b The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2007.
- ^ Francis, Mark (2002). "Andy Warhol. Berlin and London". The Burlington Magazine. 144 (1187): 122–124. JSTOR 889409.
References
- Dehghan, Saeed Kamali (2012-08-01). "Tehran exhibition reveals city's hidden Warhol and Hockney treasures". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- Polsky, R. (2009). I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon). Other Press. ISBN 978-1-59051-374-3. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- Salas, C.G.; Institute, Getty Research (2007). The Life & the Work: Art and Biography. Getty Research Institute. Getty Research Institute. ISBN 978-0-89236-823-5. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- "Masterpiece Basement". The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 2007-12-02. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
