Andy Warhol of the Month
Long-Sharp Gallery specializes in works on paper and photography by Andy Warhol. Each month our staff selects a work from our inventory that highlights something about Warhol’s life or interests and discusses it here.
Committee 2000 Champagne Glasses
Year: 1982
Medium: Unique polaroid print
Size: 4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.6 cm)
Frame size: 11 x 8.875 in (27.9 x 22.5 cm)
Provenance:
Estate of Andy Warhol (stamped)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (stamped)
Long-Sharp Gallery
Authenticated by the Authentication Board of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (stamp on verso), Foundation archive number on verso in pencil, initialed by the person who entered the works into The Foundation archive.
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About this work: According to Andy Warhol, Committee 2000 was “a club of twenty guys who got together and they’re going to buy 2,000 bottles of Dom Perignon which they will put in a sealed room until the year 2000 and then open it up and drink it and so the running joke is who will be around and who won’t.”[1] Works related to Committee 2000 raised funds for the group. Warhol celebrated with the members of the committee in Munich on March 9, 1981. They partook of an “eight-course dinner with a lot of different wines during each course.”[2]
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Reference:
[1] Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, ed. Pat Hackett (New York: Warner Books, 1989), 361.
[2] Ibid.