Lot 495
  • 495

Andy Warhol

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • ten portraits of jews of the twentieth century: the marx brothers (f. & s. ii. 232)
  • Sheet: 1015 by 813mm; 40 by 32in
Screenprint in colours, 1980, signed in pencil, numbered 6/200, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York; Jonathan A Editions, Tel Aviv, Israel, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet, in good condition apart from a group of fine vertical creases in the lower right corner of sheet with associated pigment loss, two short vertical broken creases at the upper right tip of sheet with associated pigment loss, a half-moon shaped broken crease in the centre image with pigment loss, four horizontal scratch lines in centre of image associated with broken glass, scattered foxing  mainly in the centre of image

Condition

In good condition as catalogued The group of fine creasees in lower right corner of sheet measures approx. 95mm. The two short broken creases in upper right corner of sheet measure 30mm each and there is also a very fine hairline scratch with associated pigment loss measuring 45mm. The horizontal scratch in the centre of image with the longest measuring 80mm
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