Lot 51
  • 51

Andy Warhol

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Diamond Dust Shadows
  • stamped by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and numbered PA 65.096 on the overlap

  • acrylic, silkscreen ink and diamond dust on canvas
  • 193 by 132cm.
  • 76 by 52in.
  • Executed in 1979.

Provenance

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich
Gagosian Gallery, New York

Exhibited

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Diamond Dust Shadow Paintings, 2000, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the glittering quality of the diamond dust in the cream tones in the original is not captured in the illustration. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a very faint horizontal rub mark towards the lower centre edge. No restoration is apparent under ultra violet light.
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Catalogue Note

"Warhol's admiration for and sometimes outright envy of abstract painting caused him to experiment with ideas like shadows"  Ronnie Cutrone cited in: Steven Bluttal, Eds., Andy Warhol "Giant" Size, New York 2006, p. 522