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Looking Forward: The Collection of Beverly Grossman

Andy Warhol

Buffalo Nickel (see Feldman & Schellmann IIB.374)

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

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Looking Forward: The Collection of Beverly Grossman

Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987

Buffalo Nickel (see Feldman & Schellmann IIB.374)


signed in pencil and inscribed TP 27/36

screenprint in a unique color combination on Lenox Museum Board

sheet: 36 by 36 in. 914 by 914 mm.

Executed in 1986, this impression is one of 36 unique trial proofs, with the blindstamp of the printer, Rupert Jasen Smith, published by Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., and with their inkstamp on the verso.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in March 1995 by the present owner

For more than six decades, art was at the center of Beverly Grossman’s life. As a collector, philanthropist, and museum leader, Beverly’s curiosity and generosity helped shape the cultural landscape of Minneapolis. Her education in contemporary art began in the 1960s through relationships that would prove lifelong inspirations. Among them was Gordon Locksley, then her hairdresser and an aspiring art student who later became a prominent collector and dealer to Pop artists including Andy Warhol, with whom Beverly also developed a close personal connection. Even more influential was her friendship with pioneering Minneapolis dealer Felice Wender, who introduced her to artists, deepened her understanding of their work and fostered enduring relationships with figures including Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein. For Beverly, collecting was inseparable from friendship, conversation and firsthand engagement with artists, a philosophy that is reflected in the present selection of Pop Art prints from her extraordinary collection.