Lot 433
  • 433

Andy Warhol 1928-1987

Estimate
30,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • flower for tacoma dome (f. & s. IIIa.37)
  • Sheet 980 by 1018mm; 38 5/8 by 39 3/4 in
Screenprint printed in a unique combination of colours, 1982, one of an unspecified number of impressions printed in a unique combination of colours, with the Andy Warhol estate stamp and the stamp for the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts verso, with the foundation number UP25.06, marked VF, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet printed to the edges, in good condition apart from minor scuffing and slight creasing mostly in the background

Catalogue Note

'Based on a hybrid flower created by Andy Warhol. Created for a proposal for the exterior or the interior of the Tacoma Dome, a sports and convention centre in Tacoma, Washington. Steven Antonakos was awarded the commission sponsored by the Civic Arts Commission. There are no known paintings of this subject'. Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, (Italy, 2003), p. 243.