Lot 212
  • 212

Andy Warhol

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Mao (F. & S. II.91)
  • screenprint
  • sheet: 915 by 916mm 36 by 36in
Screenprint in colours, 1972, signed in ball-point pen verso, stamp-numbered 165/250, on Beckett High White paper, published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York, framed

Condition

With full margins, generally in good condition except the colours slightly attenuated, a soft horizontal ripple and occasional handling creases throughout the sheet, a few pale surface stains at lower right are visible in a raking light, nicks and a few short tears at the sheet edges (longest measures 17mm), the verso with areas of skinning, most concentrated at the lower sheet edge and signature area, a brown accretion at right sheet edge verso and more minor accretions at lower left sheet corner recto, framed.
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