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Lot 222
  • 222

Andy Warhol

Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Mao

  • signed and dated 73 on the overlap

  • acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
  • 12 by 10 in. 30.5 by 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC#1068)
Private Collection, Japan
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Catalogue Note

Warhol's portraits of Mao fitted quite naturally into our society's existential fields, being a precise allusion to a major ideological problem of that moment.
                                                  - Pierre Restany