🔥 RARE Modern Street POP Art ANDY WARHOL Chris Brown Signed Lithograph, BYSTEDT

Description: This is a RARE limited-edition serigraph print collaboration between Andy Warhol photographer Karen Bystedt and the esteemed musician turned artist, Chris Brown (aka Konfuzed). This artwork features a portrait of Andy Warhol taken by Bystedt, embellished with glowing red eyes, and surrounded by fantastical and impish graffiti characters created by Chris Brown, known artistically as Konfuzed. Hand numbered and signed: "72/240 Karen Bystedt" in the lower left corner, and also hand signed: "Konfused" by Chris Brown. Approximately 27 x 27 inches. This piece dates to 2015. Very good, near mint condition for age and storage. This artwork will be shipped flat, in its original protective sleeve (please do not ask if this artwork can be rolled & shipped in a tube.) Karen Bystedt has blazed the contemporary art world with her vision "ANDY GOES STREET," featuring her Andy Warhol Wheatpaste Stencils, Mural and Canvas/Print collaborations with different street artists. This fantastic and powerful image of Andy Warhol, which seldomly appears on the secondary market, is Priced to Sell. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! Materials and Dimensions:Chris Brown aka Konfuzed x Karen BystedtSerigraph Limited edition 240Hand signed by Chris Brown aka Konfuzed x Karen Bystedt27" x 27"Printed by Modern Multiples About the Artist:Karen Bystedt, founder and photographer of The Lost Warhols brings to life one of the greatest art icons of the twentieth century. Shot at 'The Factory' in New York City, Bystedt was a student at NYU, working on a book on the top male models of the era, when she cold called Andy Warhol. Andy himself answered the phone and agreed to a rare sitting with Bystedt in the conference room at 'The Factory'. Bystedt went on to publish four books. Having found the negatives in 2011, long lost since the initial shoot in 1982, in Andy's spirit, Bystedt has began collaborating with some of the great artists in the street and pop art genres of today including Peter Tunney, Speedy Graphito, Gregory Siff, Dom Pattinson and Chris Brown aka Konfuzed. Permanent collections of the Lost Warhols may be found at The Andy Warhol Museum, the Armenian Museum of Modern Art, the Hearst Foundation, the Lourdes Foundation and in the private collections of Prince Albert of Monaco, Tomoasso Buti, George Lopez, David Caruso and the Dean Collection (Swizz Beats) among others. With Murals located in Los Angeles, California as well as Houston, Texas. the lost warholsKaren Bystedt, published artist, has made history in the definitive biopic WARHOL by Blake Glopnik ( Harper Collins 2020) credited with capturing Andy Warhol in a definitive time in his trajectory as an artist and model. Bystedt like no one else captured a moment in time that set the precedence for her world renowned collection The Lost Warhol’s through her sitting with Andy Warhol. At this sitting, Warhol in an unprecedented move gave the then college student the rights to his image. In Bystedt’s words .. “ I conceptualized turning him into the art.” The Lost Warhols Collection honors the iconic figure by inviting world renowned artist to paint Andy through their lense and respective medium honoring his legacy and influence as THE KING of POP ART. Karen Bystedt is an internationally acclaimed, highly prolific photographer and mixed media artist currently based in Los Angeles. She has published four photography books including Not Just Another Pretty Face (NAL, 1983), The New Breed (HOLT, 1989), Before They Were Famous (GPG, 1994) and They Dared To Dream (OSLO PROD, 1998). She has photographed film stars and rock and roll icons such as Slash, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore Eddie Van Halen, and Jon Bon Jovi. Her work is exhibited in museums across the globe including The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, and The Armenian Museum of Modern Art., and her images have appeared in dozens of publications including Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, Connoisseur Magazine, The Peninsula Magazine, Fabrik Magazine, InStyle and People. Her work has exhibited and sold at Art Basel at Scope, Red Dot, Art Houston, LA Art Fair, Art Hamptons, and at Port Authority in NYC. Bystedt is firmly committed to supporting charitable organizations; her work has benefitted amFAR, Amber Lounge benefitting the Special Olympics, and the Venice Family Art Walk. She champions accessibility and brings much of her work to the street—open to unrestricted, unlimited view. Collaboration is a key element of Bystedt’s current artistic approach; over the last four years, she has produced several murals in partnership with streets arts including Cryptik, Nick Flatt, Bisco Smith, Drew Merritt, Ralph Ziman and Moncho 1929 in Los Angeles, as well as Lee Washington and Chris Flore in Houston. In 2017, she produced her own mural Kings and Queens in Harlem, and a collaborative mural with Bradley Theodore in SOHO. In 2018, she wheat-pasted her photographic series, Inclusion, on the streets of downtown LA; she is currently developing an exhibition of the photography collection. Her latest show in April 2018 at The Bruce Lurie Gallery in LA, critically examines contemporary intimacy and romantic, digital communication in the modern era, and features her photography, and neon art, silk screened on Lucite. Bystedt continues to expand her mixed media approach, fusing photography and street art in her work as an individual, whilst forging and supporting artistic communities across the world, discovering and providing platforms for emerging talent, celebrating innovation, eclecticism, and above all—the expression of the self. Graduate of the American University in Paris for photography and literature and a film major at New York University, Bystedt has refined her natural talent with classical artistic training that has developed her keen sense of true talent and an eye for capturing the spirit of her subjects. Having photographed many stars before they were famous such as Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Bullock, Jared Leto, Drew Barrymore and more. Bystedt now has four published books including NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE (1983), THE NEW BREED (1988), BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS (1992), and THEY DARED TO DREAM (2009). Karen Bystedt Karen Bystedt an American visual artist and photographer who was born in Israel and grew up in London, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bystedt is best known for a series of photographs she took of Andy Warhol in 1982 and for the collaborations she has done with other artists, such as Chris Brown, using these images as the base for the designs. In 2014, LA Weekly included one of Bystedt's murals in their list of the top ten murals in the city. "The Lost Warhols"In 1982, Bystedt was a student at New York University working on a photography book of male models. Inspired by the modeling Warhol had done the year prior for Barney's in GQ Magazine, Bystedt wanted to include him in her project. Although Warhol rarely participated in shoots where he was a model rather than the artist, he agreed to let Bystedt photograph him at his iconic studio, The Factory.For the sitting, Warhol dressed himself in a tweed Perry Ellis sports coat, wore a neatly combed white toupee, rather than his signature "fright wig," and held a miniature American flag.Bystedt took 36 frames of Warhol and published two of them in her book of male models, Not Just Another Pretty Face. The negatives were then placed in storage and subsequently lost until 2011 when Bystedt rediscovered ten of them. Since then, Bystedt has exhibited "The Lost Warhols" in group and solo exhibitions internationally, including Los Angeles, New York and Portugal."Andy Goes Street"Taking her 1982 series into the contemporary scene, Bystedt has collaborated with street artists, fine artists and muralists to reinvigorate her photographs. For instance, in 2011 Bystedt and text-based artist Peter Tunney did a live installation at Art Basel in the renowned Wynwood district and in 2013, eight of her Warhol photographs were projected on the Videotron above the Key Club on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. These projections inspired Bystedt to collaborate with other visual artists using her images as the foundation creating mixed media art.Among these collaborations, the most publicly recognized is the series she did in 2015 with musician and visual artist Chris Brown.In the summer of 2016, Bystedt exhibited her "The Lost Warhols" in Portugal collaborating with international artists and producing the first mural on the streets of Vilamoura.CollaborationsAmong Bystedt's street and fine art collaborators are: Peter Tunney, Gregory Siff, Bill Barminsky, Speedy Graphito, Bradley Theodore, Cryptik, Drew Merrit, Annie Preece, the Producer BDB, Moncho 1929, Magne Furuholmen and Chris Brown."The Gold Kollection"In 2016, Bystedt began a new series, "The Gold Kollection," including a nude self-portrait of the artist covered in gilded body paint. This image evolved into “The Kings Kollection," a series of mixed-media art combining Bystedt's Warhol photographs with an iconic photograph of Jean-Michel Basquiat taken by Brad Branson in 1984.Permanent Collections"The Lost Warhols" are included in the permanent collections of several museums and foundation collections around the world, including: The Andy Warhol Museum, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, the Armenian Museum of Modern Art and the Hearst Foundation. In 2012, Bystedt donated a work to an amFAR Milan auction which raised 50,000 euros for AIDS research.PublicationsBystedt has published four books combining interviews with her photography: Not Just Another Pretty Face (1983), The New Breed (1988), They Dared to Dream (2009) and Before They Were Famous (1992), a collection of intimate photographs and candid interviews of actors taken before their rise to fame. Photographer Karen Bystedt remembersshooting Andy Warhol as an NYU studentBy Trey TaylorMay 1, 2018 Karen Bystedt, who has made a career of photographing actors like Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp when they were still just pretty mugs knocking on the doors of Hollywood, had perhaps her most career-making encounter when she was still a student at New York University. Bystedt rung up the Interview offices in 1982, and to her surprise, Andy Warhol answered the phone in his baby voice. She convinced him to sit for a portrait in the magazine’s conference room when it was still located at Union Square. She also interviewed Warhol and published the resulting portraits in a book of male models titled Not Just A Pretty Face in 1983.Then, fait accompli, she stored away the negatives and forgot about them. Until 2011, when she saw a Warhol artwork fetch $100 million at auction and decided it was time to dig them up. To her horror, most of the 36 negatives were eaten away by termites or covered in termite poop and it took a painstaking pixel-by-pixel process of Photoshop magic to bring ten of The Lost Warhols back to their former glory. Now, returning to the city where she originally photographed the Pope of Pop Art, Bystedt is exhibiting the original images as well as a number of reworks of the photos by artists Tommii Lim, Dom Pattinson, and Peter Tunney, among others. Here’s how it all began.KAREN BYSTEDT: I was probably 17 or 18 when I first saw Andy Warhol. I was a club kid when I was 17. I would go to Area, Limelight, Nell’s … Then I somehow started photographing male models. I was gonna be a film student, and I had this boyfriend who had a camera and he had me photograph him. I fell in love with it. I took a photography class and started photographing all my friends, and then someone heard about me and asked if I would test. He said he’d buy the film. So we did three rolls, and he took them to his agency and I went in there and showed them my portfolio. And [the agency] said, “You’re really good with men.”I was very cultured, so of course I knew who Andy Warhol was. I even saw him and Basquiat once at a gallery opening in Chelsea, huddled in the corner. But I got the idea to photograph [Andy] when I was perusing through GQ magazine to look for models. I saw an ad at Barney’s with him modeling. He had this white wig, and I thought, wouldn’t it be great to have Andy in a book on male models? I knew he was at Interview magazine and I knew people around him, but I didn’t know him himself. But once I saw him in the ad I wanted him as a model in the book, which was called Not Just Another Pretty Face. So I called Interview magazine—apparently André Leon Talley was answering the phone then—but Andy answered the phone, which was crazy. Like, unheard of.I recognized his voice because he had a very specific voice. He spoke very slowly, almost like a baby. I said, “Look, this is Karen Hardy”—that’s my maiden name—“and I would love to photograph you as a model for this book I’m working on.” He just said, “Oh, really? Who else do you have?” I said, “Well I have—” I rattled off a bunch of names. I had two of the Calvin Klein underwear guys, I had the Ralph Lauren guy. So then he said okay, and we set it up.I’d been photographing everyone else with a Nikon at sunset, and I’d been doing body shots, with their shirts off. But of course, I wasn’t gonna do that with Andy! Now I might’ve had the courage to say, “Let’s take it off.” [laughs] Anyway, I rented a Hasselblad, because Robert Mapplethorpe was using a Hasselblad, and I wanted, out of respect, to photograph Andy with a Hasselblad. He met me in the [magazine’s] conference room. He was wearing a tweed Perry Ellis suit. I guess Perry Ellis was one of his favorite designers. He had put on his own makeup. It was really bad. He had caked it on, so I actually had to ask him if I could help him spread it around a little. First, he literally jumped back, because I don’t think people touched him, but I really wanted to make him look as good as possible. Then he said, “I wish everyone would do that because I wanna do those day jobs and hang out with all the beautiful models and get paid the day rates. Instead, they’re all afraid to touch me, and they just book me for half an hour and just shove me in the shot.” [laughs] So that was it. I also interviewed him for the book. One of the things he said was that he had been in a store in Paris and this guy that worked there was staring at him and he thought, “Well, this guy must be staring at me because I’m Andy Warhol or something.” That’s how he said it: “Or something.” But the guy came up to [him] and said, “Aren’t you the model that was in the Barney’s ad in GQ?” And he said, “That made my day, it made my week, it made my year.” I always thought it was so crazy that Andy Warhol, who was such a famous figure, had agreed to photograph with me. I hadn’t even been published. He didn’t even ask to see my work, he just let me in.In the book I did this thing called vital statistics with all the models, and in all the vital statistics boxes. Instead of putting people’s nicknames—like Matt—I would’ve put Matthew. So for Andy, I put Andrew. [laughs] Some of the things I asked were: “What are your favorite hobbies?” He said, “Everything I do is a hobby.” I said, “What’s your age?” “Boys don’t have to tell their age anymore.” Who’s your hero? “Walt Disney.” Favorite movie? “Coming attractions.” Just the coming attractions, that was his favorite movie. He was quick, but very slow and deliberate in the way he delivered. It was almost cartoon-like. While he was talking you were like … “Wow. What is he saying?” It was very confusing, the way he delivered it, but it was all brilliant.[At some point] I lost track of the negatives. I believe I gave them to a photo agency, but they never did anything with them. Then I read a story about how Andy had just sold something for 100 million and a lightbulb went off. I was like, “Oh shit, I have to go find the negatives.” For about a week I looked and then I finally found some of them in a cardboard box. Not even metal or plastic. Termites ate them. They were big negatives in wax sleeves. Some of the sleeves were okay, but some of them the termites had eaten through. Then I was introduced to a guy who was in the archival department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, who scanned them on $50,000 machines up at the museum. I hired him, and for four months we sat there and I watched him restore the images back pixel by pixel. I’ve never seen anything like it. I retouch, but this is crazy. Seriously, we were just looking at pixels. Then what happened was, because there was dirt or whatever it was as we were fixing, Andy started to look better. So it almost went into retouching, and I had to make the creative artistic decision to be okay with that. I feel like Andy always wanted to look beautiful, and I did photograph him as a model, so I made the artistic decision to make him look as good as possible.My idea was to do a cohesive show in New York City, where I photographed him, with the right people. And then I was introduced to God’s Love We Deliver, one of the largest charities in New York City. I really wanted to do a cohesive show of my photographs and all these incredible interpretations that other artists have done, making Andy Warhol into the art.THE LOST WARHOLS: BRINGING ANDY HOME IS ON VIEW UNTIL MAY 22, 2018 AT ONE VANDAM, 178 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS.

Price: 1350 USD

Location: Orange, California

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