Warhol archive collected by lead agent Thomas Aman donated to Artists Foundation – ARTnews.com

The New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has received an archive of documents and materials relating to Warhol’s legacy compiled by the late pioneer merchant Thomas Aman, who sold Warhol’s works during his lifetime.

The archival collection, which includes photographs and other work related to the artist’s career, has its origins in the late 1970s when the Zurich-based Ammann, who died in 1993, began collecting ephemera about the pop artist. As a merchant, Oman gained a reputation for selling impressionist and modern art, although on occasion he also sold works of contemporary artists.

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Aman went on to become a long-time close friend and patron of Warhol, whom he met in the 1970s while working for merchant Bruno Bischoffberger, and around this time Aman pitched the idea to Warhol about starting work on a cause catalog for his art. A month before opening his own shop, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, in 1977, Aman obtained permission to do so. Although Aman worked after Warhol’s death in 1987 and until Warhol’s death of AIDS-related causes in 1993, the project was left unfinished; His sister and business partner, Doris, teamed up with the Warhol Foundation to continue the project, publishing the first two volumes, in 2002 and 2004.

The current gift, donated by the Thomas and Doris Aman Foundation, will help the Warhol Foundation, now sole agent in Warhol’s Guide, as it compiles the sixth volume of the project, focusing on Warhol’s paintings and sculptures from 1978 to 1980 and to be published in the spring of 2024 .

Neil Prentz, current editor of the catalog, said in a statement: “This volume will not only document the same years that Thomas Aman and Andy Warhol began working together, but will feature Warhol’s amazing portraits of Aman, drawn in early 1978, just as he ventured out on his own as an art dealer. independent and began to catalog the cause of Warhol’s work.”

The Amman Foundation, established after Doris’ death in 2021, recently began selling the business owned by the siblings to raise money for the charities it supports in medical research and education. One such work, Warhol’s 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe entitled Shot Blue Marilyn (1964), made international headlines in May when it sold at Christie’s New York for $195 million (with fees), breaking the artist’s auction record.

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