Lot 249
  • 249

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Marilyn (Announcement) (Not in Feldman & Schellmann)
  • offset lithograph in colors
  • sheet: 12 by 12 in. (30.6 by 30.5 cm.)
  • frame: 36 1/4 by 32 3/8 in. (92.2 by 82.2 cm.)
Screenprint in colors, 1981, signed in marker, from the edition of unknown size, on smooth wove paper, printed by Colour Editions, Inc., published by Castelli Graphics, New York, framed 

Condition

The colors are attenuated from exposure to light (apart from a band of darker pigment along the perimeter of the sheet). An inconspicuous spot of damp-stain at upper sheet edge and few unobtrusive creases in the image and sheet edges, two with slight ink separation at right sheet edge. The verso with seven narrow strips of non-archival tape at the extreme sheet edges. For further details on this lot, please contact Sotheby's Prints Department: 212-606-7117
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