Lot 1
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Andy Warhol

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Mao (Feldman & Schellmann II.99)
  • silk screen
  • sheet: 36 by 36 in.; 91.4 by 91.4 cm
Screenprint in colors, 1972, signed in ball-point pen on the verso, stamp-numbered 210/250, on Beckett High White paper, with the ink stamp of the printer, Styria Studios, Inc., New York, co-published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet printed to the edges with fresh colors. The verso is discolored with backboard stain. There are inconspicuous soft-handling creases in the bottom and upper right corners of the sheet with associated, unobtrusive hairline cracks in the ink. With three areas of pigment loss at extreme bottom sheet edge. (The top left corner is slightly creased.)
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