Lot 242
  • 242

Andy Warhol

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • (i) Keith Haring(ii) Jean-Michel Basquiat(iii) Keith Haring(iv) Truman Capote
  • each: stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., and numbered on the reverse as:
    (i) FL05.00827 (ii) FL05.00520
    (iii) FL05.02058 (iv) FL05.00646

  • four gelatin silver prints
  • each: 25.4 by 20.3cm.; 10 by 8in.
  • (iv)
  • (i) & (ii) Executed in 1984. (iii) Executed circa 1985. (iv) Executed in 1978.

Provenance

Hauser & Wirth, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Exhibition Catalogue, London, Hauser & Wirth; New York, Zwirner & Wirth, Warhol's World, 2006, pp. 7, 9, 203 & 244, illustrated
Asker, Galleri Trafo, Automat, 2008

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality in all four works is slightly warmer in the original. Condition: All four photographs are in very good condition. All are hinged to the backing board along the top edge. (ii) There are specks of extremely minor wear to all four corners. (iii) There are a few specks of extremely minor wear along the lower extreme edge.
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