Lot 143
Nosepicker II
Sold
$228,600
Est $200,000 - $300,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART DAY SALE, MORNING SESSION
ARTIST
Andy Warhol
Size
37 x 18 1/8 in. (94 x 46 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM THE PAUL AND ANNA WARHOLA ESTATE

Medium
tempera, pencil and ink on Masonite
Signature
Executed in 1948.
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to the present owners circa 1950
Literature
Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist, New York, 1987, no. 92, pp. 111, 272 (illustrated, p. 111; dated 1946) Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, p. 14 (illustrated) Warhol, Le grand monde d'Andy Warhol, exh. cat., Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris, 2009, fig. 3, p. 26 (illustrated; titled as The Lord Gave me my Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose (Nose Picker 2)) David Anfam, ed., Andy Warhol, New York, 2011, pp. 20-21 (illustrated, p. 21; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose) Rudo Prekop and Michal Cihlár, Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia, New York, 2011, p. 71 (illustrated; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose) Edward D. Powers, ““All Things That I Didn’t Want to Change Anyway:" Andy Warhol and the Sociology of Difference,” American Art, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2012, fig. 6, pp. 55-57 (illustrated, p. 57) Joseph D. Ketner II, Andy Warhol, New York, 2013, no. 12, p. 21 (illustrated; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose) Bill O’Driscoll, “ArtReview: Body of Work,” Pittsburgh City Paper, vol. 27, issue 2, January 11, 2017, p. 21
Exhibited
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Andy Warhol: Das zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975, 1976, no. 92, pp. 109, 223 (illustrated, p. 109; dated circa 1945) Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Success is a Job in New York: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol, March 14, 1989–September 9, 1990, p. 27 Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; London, Tate Modern, Andy Warhol: Retrospective, October 2, 2001–April 1, 2002, no. 3, pp. 15, 62, 306 (illustrated, p. 62; erroneously titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose) Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, February 3, 2010–April 1, 2019 (long term loan) Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Andy Warhol: The College Years, August 6, 2010–January 2, 2011 Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: from Carnegie Tech to New York, May 30–September 6, 2015, p. 59 Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, My Perfect Body, October 21, 2016–January 22, 2017, p. 73 Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell Museum, Inventing America: Rockwell + Warhol, June 10–October 29, 2017, pp. 11, 83 (illustrated, p. 11)