Lot 489
  • 489

Andy Warhol

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • ten portraits of jews of the twentieth century: george gershwin (f. & s. ii. 231)
  • Sheet: 1015 by 813mm; 40 by 32in
Screenprint in colours, 1980, signed in pencil, numbered 6/200, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. New York; Jonathan A Editions, Tel Aviv, Israel, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet, in good condition apart from a broken crease at each tip of sheet, a diagonal crease at upper right corner of sheet, slight surface dirt in lower part of image to left of tie, slight foxing verso

Condition

In good condition at catalogued There is a short broken crease at each tip of the sheet the longest measuring 45mm. The diagonal crease in upper right corner of sheet measures 140mm. There is a slight pressure mark associated with framing running along the outer edge of the sheet. There is slight surface dirt (insect residue?) in the lower part of the image, mainly to the left of the tie. Very slight cockling.
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