Lot 221
  • 221

Andy Warhol

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (F. & S. II.345)
  • Screenprint in colours
  • sheet: 999 by 799mm 39 3/8 by 31 1/2 in
Screenprint in colours, 1985, from Reigning Queens, signed in pencil, numbered 30/40 (total edition includes 10 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the printer's blindstamp, Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by George C.P. Mulder, Amsterdam, framed

Condition

The full sheet, printed to the edges, in good condition, the pink, green and purple are slightly attenuated (visible in comparison with the colours at the sheet edges that are covered by the over-mount), a scuff mark with associated surface soiling at the extreme right edge of sheet, a few very light scuff marks in the pink background and a couple in the hair (only visible in a raking light), a few minute nicks to the extreme sheet edges, framed.
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