A collection of prints coming up for sale at Sotheby’s offers fresh insight into Andy Warhol’s tireless factory output.We know his productivity knew little bounds from the 1950s right through to his death in 1987. The soup cans and packaging were followed by photographs of anything from dollar signs to car crashes. He especially liked the great and the good, alive or dead, famous or infamous, good or bad.The Marilyns and Maos are well known. (One wonders how many there would have been of Adele, Amy Winehouse or Lady Gaga if he were still around.)Now we are getting to some of his lesser-known works: sunsets, pictures of reigning queens , saints, camouflage fabric, even versions of Renaissance paintings such as Uccello’s “St. George and the Dragon.”And Marilyn comes face to face with some unusual Warhol subjects such as Goethe, General Custer and Geronimo.The auction includes lots from two private collections, one from Slovakia – showing how the homeland of Warhol’s parents became a hub for collecting of his works. The area has the first museum in the world dedicated to the pop artist, in the relatively remote area of Medzilaborce.More auction lots come from the family of collector Hermann Wünsche of Germany. Wünsche coordinated the making of the first catalogue catalogue raisonné of Warhol and there are more rarities of offer here.Shortly before Warhol’s death in 1985, the artist turned out a set of author Hans Christian Anderson and they are estimated at £8,000 to £12,000 for the four. He also produced a screenprint of Cologne Cathedral in unique colors with diamond dust in 1985. That print is estimated at as much as £20,000. The “Warhol’s World” sale, subtitled From “Philosophers to Film Stars,” in prints and multiples auction on September 29 in London.
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