Lot 187
  • 187

Andy Warhol

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • electric chair (f. & s. ii.76)
  • Screenprint
  • Sheet: 898 by 1215mm; 35 3/8 by 47¾in
Screenprint in colours, 1971, signed and dated in ball-point pen verso, stamp-numbered 233/250, on smooth wove paper, printed by Silkprint Kettner, published by Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich

Condition

The sheet printed to the edges, slightly trimmed along each edge, pigment losses to the tips of corners and upper edge, creasing to the upper corners, some surface dirt and handling marks and creases, predominately but not exclusively to the edges, skinning to verso of sheet at intervals along each edge, including the lower right corner slightly obscuring the 'A' of the signature and to the copyright stamp at lower left corner, associated with previous hinging, some surface dirt to sheet verso . Framed.
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