Lot 209
  • 209

Andy Warhol

Estimate
35,000 - 55,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Giant Panda (F. & S. II.295)
  • Screenprint in colours
  • sheet: 965 by 965mm 38 by 38in
Screenprint in colours, 1983, from Endangered Species, signed in pencil, numbered 131/150 (total edition includes 30 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, with his blindstamp, published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, with their red inkstamp, framed

Condition

The full sheet printed to the edges, the colours fresh, in good condition apart from two crescent-shaped hairline cracks in the pigment, one at left (with associated rubbing) and one at bottom of image (approx. 70mm and 42mm respectively), minute pigment loss at lower left tip of sheet, the signature very slightly smudged, the occasional scuff mark (only visible in a raking light), with the remains of adhesive tape and previous hinging at four corners verso, some minor handling marks, framed.
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