
THE EMILY FISHER LANDAU COLLECTION: AN ERA DEFINED
Merce Cunningham I
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December 15, 06:02 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987
Merce Cunningham I
signed in pencil and numbered 87/100 (on the verso)
screenprint on Japanese gift wrapping paper
sheet: 30 by 20 in. (76.3 by 50.9 cm.)
Executed in 1974; this impression is number 87 from the edition of 100 plus 30 artist's proofs, co-published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., and with the artist's copyright stamp on the verso.
Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York
Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner
Jouey-en-Josas, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art; Prague, Narodni Galeri v Praza; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstammlung; Budhapest, Muczarnok; Belgrade, Muzej Savvemene Umetnosti; and Warsaw, Uzeum Narodove W Warszawie, 15 June 1990 - 28 July 1991
New York, Blum Helman Gallery, Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary: Art Works and Commissioned Portraits by Painters and Photographers, 1988
Fraya Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987, New York 2003, p. 89, no. II.124 illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Tom Armstrong et al., Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980 - 81, New York 1981, vol. 3 p. 40 (another example)
Judith Goldman, Prints Acquisitions 1974 - 1984, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, p. 94 (another example illustrated)
Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary: Art Works and Commissioned Portraits by Painters and Photographers), New York 1988, p. 22
Riva Castleman, Exh. Cat., Jouey-en-Josas, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Prints of Andy Warhol, 1990, p. 122 (another example)
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