SANTA MONICA AUCTIONS at Bergamot Station Arts Center, will be holding a two-day auction
beginning on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7 starting at 1pm. On Saturday, we will be
featuring Photography; Sunday will be Contemporary and Modern Art in all mediums, including
paintings, drawings, sculpture, and multiples.
One of the featured highlights of the Saturday, May 6 Photography Auction will be four framed
Andy Warhol Polaroid Collages, consisting of 66 photographs, 15 collages +1 individual
Polaroid, commissioned by Hugh Hefner and first published in Playboy, August 1974. Likely the
first Fine Art Polaroid Collages ever made. The works remained in the collection of Playboy and
were de-accessed throughout a 20 year period. Three of the four framed works were featured
and exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum, October 3, 2008 - February 13, 2009 (at the time
three sets were insured by the Andy Warhol Museum at a value of $300,000).
The four framed collages were acquired by our consignors over several decades and this is the
first time they have been auctioned as a set of four. These works are currently on display and
available for preview at our Bergamot Station location.
ANDY WARHOL, 1974, Published as INSTANT WARHOL in the June, 1974 Playboy.
Four (4) part Set of Separately Framed Polaroid Photo Collages; along with copies of the 1974 Playboy to
Warhol Photo Assignment, a copy of the 1974 Playboy Check to Andy Warhol and an original letter from
Playboy explaining the Warhol photographs. Also included with the provenance are other receipts, the
Original Playboy Magazines (1974 and 1990) that featured the photographs and a copy of the 1974
Embossed Self Portrait of Andy Warhol in a mirror, that Warhol shot for Playboy of himself with a Polaroid
Camera, published in both 1974 and again in 1990.
The auction estimate is $400,000 - $500,000.