Lot 165
  • 165

Andy Warhol

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Goethe (F. & S. II.270-273)
  • Screenprints in colours
  • each sheet: 965 by 965mm 38 by 38in
The complete portfolio, comprising four screenprints in colours, 1982, each signed in pencil, numbered 79/100 (total edition includes 22 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the printer's blindstamp, Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by Editions Schellmann & Klüser, Munich and New York, and Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, with their inkstamp and the artist's copyright inkstamp on the verso, each framed

Condition

The full sheets, printed to the edges, the colours fresh, in good condition apart from the occasional nick to the extreme sheet edges (with very infrequent associated minute pigment losses), occasional traces of very light rubbing at the sheet edges, the extreme corners of sheets with miniscule dots of rubbing where the uppermost layer of pigment has been lifted (only visible upon close inspection). Other minor imperfections to individual sheets include: F. & S.II.271 with some flecks of white residue (paper?) towards the lower edge of the sheet and a very small, lightly rubbed area in the face of Goethe (only visible in a raking light). F. & S.II.272 with a couple of lightly rubbed lines in the black hat in the right of the image.
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