Lot 18
  • 18

Andy Warhol

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Trucci
  • signed and inscribed
  • blue-black ballpoint pen
  • 17 by 14 in.
  • 43.4 by 35.6 cm.
  • Executed circa 1955, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Richard D. Foreman
By descent to a Private Collection, 2003
Sotheby's, New York, February 23, 2005, lot 146
Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008

Condition

The sheet is undulating slightly. There are a few soft creases to the upper left quadrant. There is pale time staining to the sheet. The ink is very slightly faded. Framed under Plexiglas. This work has not been examined out of the frame.
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Catalogue Note

The title of this work refers to the sitter, who was owned by Andy Warhol's friend Richard D. Foreman. Warhol would often go to Foreman's apartment and sketch Trucci during these visits.