Lot 26
  • 26

Andy Warhol

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Dollar Sign
  • silkscreen on paper
  • 40 by 22 in.
  • 101.6 by 58.9 cm.
  • Executed in 1982, this work is stamped by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc., and numbered A182.984.

Provenance

Telemarket, Brescia
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Condition

The work is in very good condition overall. Stamped verso: c. Andy Warhol 1982; and Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. Authentic. Handwritten in pen: A182.984. There are faint smudge marks center left, center right and top left. There are signs of handling on the bottom left corner. The sheet is hinged at the top to the backing board. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"If Matisse was Warhol's favorite artist as he occasionally claimed, then the Dollar Sign pictures may have been Warhol's odalisques.  The Dollar Sign paintings abound in radiant effects that recall Matisse's preeminence as a colorist, and it is easy to see Warhol's drawings as sensual responses to a shapely symbol for prizes and possessions."

Trevor Fairbrother, "ABC Dollar", in Andy Warhol Dollar Signs, Van de Weghe, Ltd., New York, 2004, p. 22-23