Andy Warhol

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1988

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A Portraits 1776-1976, 1976
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; Denver, Denver Art Museum, Andy Warhol Portraits, 1976
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Andy Warhol Portraits of the 70s, 1979-1980
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery,  Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties, 1993, p. 46, no. 6, illustrated in colour 

David Bourdon, "Portrait Issue: Warhol's Mother", Art in America, January/ February 1975, illustrated on the front cover in colour
Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture 1970-1974,Vol 3, New York 2010, p. 509, no. 2804, illustrated in colour

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is much brighter and more vibrant in the original. The catalogue illustration fails to fully convey the painterly surface apparent in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is very minor wear in all four corners. In certain light, there are faint stretcher marks visible along the top and upper right edges. There is a shallow crease to the canvas running diagonally across the top left hand quadrant. There are two very small spots of slightly darker orange pigment to the centre-left of the figure's face, visible in the catalogue illustration, that fluoresce when examined under ultra-violet light.
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