250
1961
February Warhol purchases a JasperJohns drawing,
Light Bulb (1958, private collection), from the Leo
Castelli Gallery for $450, which he pays in installments.
This year, he also purchases six Frank Stella
paintings, three Johns lithographs, an...
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250
1961
February Warhol purchases a JasperJohns drawing,
Light Bulb (1958, private collection), from the Leo
Castelli Gallery for $450, which he pays in installments.
This year, he also purchases six Frank Stella
paintings, three Johns lithographs, an Ellsworth
Kelly watercolor, a RayJohnson collage, and a
painted shirt byJim Dine.
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april Warhol shows his Pop paintings in New York
for the irst time, as part of a display in the window
of the Bonwit Teller department store.
The works
shown are Advertisement (1961, Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Collection Marx, Berlin),
Before and After [1] (1961, p.
84), The Little King
(1961, private collection), Superman (1961, Gunter
Sachs), and Saturday’s Popeye (1961, Ludwig Forum
für Internationale Kunst, Collection Ludwig).
(Bonwit
Teller display, 1961.
Collection of The AndyWarhol
Museum, Pittsburgh)
also this year Warhol is rejected by the Leo Castelli
Gallery, reportedly for his artworks’ similarity to
those of Roy Lichte
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