'Black + White Ad Series: Van Engelen' by Andy Warhol, 2012
Limited Edition Skateboard Deck by Alien Workshop for pro skater Anthony Van Engelen.
Officially licensed by the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Based on the artist's 'Black + White Ad Series' of silkscreen prints from 1985-86.
8.125 x 31.25 Inches
Screen print on 7-ply Canadian Maple hardwood skate deck.
Limited Edition (Sold Out).
New in original packaging with Alien Workshop stickers, 'B/W Ad Series' booklet and 'Cow' fabric patch.
Top-print includes printed signature of the artist.
Also includes Sk8 of the Art COA.

*Note: Skate Deck wall hangers sold separately.

ABOUT THE ART

In the mid-1980s Andy Warhol made a series of large (72 x 80 inches) and small (16 x 20 inches) silkscreened black and white paintings of images taken from advertisements, diagrams, maps, and illustrations in newspapers and magazines. With images of Russian missile bases, maps of Iran and Afghanistan, and common consumer items such as sneakers, hamburgers and motorbikes, they have a continuing uncanny resonance some fifteen years after their creation.

Warhol's constant themes of consumer culture, death and religion are powerfully represented in these late works. The paintings are contemporary with the collaborations Warhol made at this period with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente, which revitalized his interest in painting, and are directly related to the early Pop paintings that established Warhol's reputation in the early 1960s.