Lot 527
  • 527

Andy Warhol

Estimate
140,000 - 180,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Blackglama (Judy Garland) (F&S II. 351)
  • signed and numbered 133/190 in pencil with two printer's blindstamps; stamped with the publisher's seal and a copyright seal on the reverse 
  • screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Executed in 1985, this work is from the Ads portfolio of ten screenprints, each in an edition of 190 plus 30 artist's proofs, 5 printer's proofs, 5 editor's proofs, 10 hors commerces, 1 BAT and 30 trial proofs printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York and published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York.

Provenance

Martin Lawrence Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Literature

Frayda Feldman & Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, DAP/Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Milan, 2003, cat. no. IIIC.1, p. 146, another edition illustrated

Condition

This work is in good condition. One very light scratches and handling wear at the upper right corner. Specks of light dust and minor undulation across the surface of the paper.
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