Property from an Important European Collection
Andy Warhol
The American Indian (Russell Means)
Auction Closed
May 15, 12:36 AM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection
Andy Warhol
(1928 - 1987)
The American Indian (Russell Means)
signed twice, titled, and dated 1976 (on the reverse)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
50 by 42 in.
127 by 106.7 cm.
Executed in 1976.
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Robert Rauschenberg, New York (acquired from the above in 1976)
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York (by bequest from the above in 2008)
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Selections from the Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, November - December 2011, p. 213, illustrated in color
New York, Venus Over Manhattan, À Rebours, May - June 2012
London, Skarstedt Gallery, Andy Warhol: The American Indian, Paintings and Drawings, October - November 2012, pl. 6, pp. 28, 49 (text) and p. 29, illustrated in color
Rozalia Jovanovic, "Russell Means, American Indian Activist and Subject of Warhol Series, Is Dead at 72," Observer, 22 October 2012, illustrated in color (online)
Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures, Volume 4, 1974-1976, New York 2014, no. 3396, p. 513, illustrated in color and p. 517 (text)
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