Twentieth Century Modern Masters
Committee 2000
Committee 2000 is a hand-signed colour screenprint by Andy Warhol, published in Munich in 1982 during the mature period of the artist’s career. It was commissioned by the Munich-based Committee 2000 to raise funds for projects looking towards the new millennium, and depicts a celebratory still life of drinking glasses and scattered confetti rendered in Warhol’s characteristic layered colour.
Unlike many of Warhol’s editions built around celebrity or consumer imagery, Committee 2000 reflects his willingness to work with cultural and charitable initiatives while retaining his unmistakable visual language.
Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith in an edition of 2,000, this impression is numbered 1198/2000 and bears Smith’s embossed blind stamp. It is documented in Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann’s catalogue raisonné of Warhol’s prints as FS II.289.
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
— Andy Warhol
Why This Work Matters
Committee 2000 combines a clearly documented production history with a distinctive place in Warhol's later work. Printed by his long-standing collaborator Rupert Jasen Smith, published during the artist's lifetime and documented in the definitive Feldman and Schellmann catalogue raisonné, it offers collectors a clearly identified route into Warhol's mature screenprint practice.
Catalogue Entry
- Artist
- Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
- Title
- Committee 2000
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- Original colour screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
- Signature
- Hand-signed by the artist in pencil
- Edition
- 1198/2000
- Framed dimensions
- 102 x 77 cm
- Printer
- Rupert Jasen Smith, New York (embossed blind stamp)
- Publisher
- Committee 2000, Munich
- Literature
- Frayda Feldman & Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, FS II.289
- Reference
- 389
£17,775
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