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ANDY WARHOL, Some Men Need Help, 1982, ONE-OF-A-KIND ORIGINAL on Paper

Currency:USD Category:Art / Medium - Lithographs Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:250,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD
ANDY WARHOL, Some Men Need Help, 1982, ONE-OF-A-KIND ORIGINAL on Paper
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ANDY WARHOL, 'Some Men Need Help', 1982, ONE-OF-A-KIND ORIGINAL on Paper, 40" x 32" (101.6 x 81.3 cm). 'Some Men Need Help' was a two-man play written by John Ford Noonan. It opened on Broadway at the 47th Street Theatre in New York on October 28th, 1982. Starring Philip Bosco and Treat Williams it was also produced in association with Jane Holzer - a former Warhol 'superstar'. Mr. Noonan has written the kind of two-character exercise that is treasured in acting-school classes. Hudley T. Singleton 3d is a once most-likely- to-succeed young executive who has taken to spending much of his time in an alcoholic stupor on his kitchen floor. The elderly Gaetano Altobelli is his vulgar Italian neighbor who, for some unfathomable reason, has decided to help him. ''You don't have to drink,'' says Gaetano, "there are better ways to get attention." Once again, as he did in "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking,'" Mr. Noonan drags two very different characters into an unlikely situation and depends on the mere juxtaposition to keep the action spinning. In this case, however, the vehicle stalls early on, and stays that way. Andy Warhol based this artwork on a photograph used for the promotional poster he made for the John Ford Noonan play. It shows characteristics of Warhol's work from the 1980s. The TATE Museum in the UK has a Lithograph on paper of this work. In this work Warhol has combined blocks of color which, through their irregularity and breaking out of the image's frame, appear collaged. On top of this is a printed photographic image and a screen printed linear drawing, which highlights details of the figures. Authenticated by The Estate of Andy Warhol & The Warhol Foundation, number 87.006!