Lot 39
  • 39

Andy Warhol

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Lenin
  • stamped by The Estate of Andy Warhol, stamped twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and numbered twice PA 81.017 on the overlap; stamped by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts on the reverse 
  • acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
  • 55.6 by 40.6cm.; 21 7/8 by 16in.
  • Executed in 1986.

Provenance

Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Private Collection (acquired directly from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and the figure's skin tone tends more towards a soft pink in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is light wear to the left two corner tips. Close inspection reveals two very thin light vertical rub marks towards the lower left edge, and one towards the left of the figure's beard. Examination under ultraviolet light reveals a small spot of retouching towards the centre of the upper left quadrant.
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