Lot 20
  • 20

Andy Warhol

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Untitled (Shadow)
  • each: stamped by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and numbered on the overlap
  • acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, in six parts
  • each: 35.5 by 28.5cm.; 14 by 11 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1979.

Provenance

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired directly from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is much richer and more vibrant in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. As per the catalogue illustration: there are three very short and stable hairline cracks towards the centre of the lower edge of the upper left canvas. There is some light buckling to the upper right quadrant of the upper right canvas. There is a faint vertical impression running towards the centre of the lower left canvas. There is evidence of light handling towards the upper right corner of the lower right canvas. Extremely close inspection reveals a pinhead-sized speck of loss to the extreme lower left edge of the lower centre canvas. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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