Lot 57
  • 57

Andy Warhol

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Jean Cocteau
  • signed
  • oilstick and paper collage on paper
  • 31 1/2 by 24 in. 80 by 61 cm.
  • Executed in 1983, this work is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., and numbered VF115.086 on the reverse.

Provenance

Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Sperone Westwater, New York
Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York (acquired in 2004)
Gift to the present owner from the above in 2005

Exhibited

Basel, Kunstmuseum; Kleve, Museum Schloss Moyland; Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum; Seattle, The Henry Art Gallery, Andy Warhol - Drawings 1942-1987, May 1998 - October 2000, cat. no. 214, n.p.
New York, Sperone Westwater, A Triple Alliance: de Chirico, Picabia, Warhol, January - February 2004, pp. 104-105

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse along the top edge to the backing board. The collaged papers are intact and secure. The left and right edges are lightly deckled. There is some very minor pigment smudging at the top right corner of the figure's forehead and again at his cheekbone. Framed under Plexiglas.
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