In 1983, the king of pop-арта performed a series of ten serigraphs of "Endangered species" — with images of animals under threat of extinction. Among them was the Siberian tiger. Now these works were first shown in Russia

Andy Warhol. Endangered species
the State Darwin Museum
18 Mar — may 28 2017
Moscow, Vavilova str., 57

Endangered Species — "Endangered species", they're "Animals in makeup" —-known series of 10 silkscreen Warhol stencils for which he did in 1983. About his asked wife-миллионеры a Feldman, who was a passionate animal advocates.

Warhol was obviously heavily inspired by the task, because large series of animals came out exceptionally expressive and strong. And is believed to have achieved the main goal of — draw attention to endangered species: Amur tiger, African elephant, orangutan, black Rhino, grevy's Zebra, giant Panda, bald eagle, bighorn sheep, tree frogs from the family of tree frogs and rare San Francisco Silverspot butterfly, populations of which now, fortunately, threatens nothing.

TV Channel "Culture" announced that those works which were brought to the Darwin Museum, printed with the permission of the Andy Warhol recently. If nothing is confusing, because it is easy to get confused. One of the draws of the series was not so small — 150 prints, plus 10 numbered in Roman numerals, plus 30 copies of the. Individually, these large (96 × 96 cm) leaves regularly sold at international auctions in the price range of $40 000-65 000. But there was still circulation. In other sizes, other colors. In particular, at the auctions was a four-foot version of the silkscreen "Endangered species", which can cost $1 250 000. A lot of material that would be money.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: tvkultura.ru, darwinmuseum.ru, artinvestment.ru