Andy Warhol

Screenprint in colours, 1972, signed in black ball-point pen verso, numbered A/P 13/50 verso (an artist's proof aside from the edition of 250), with the printer's inkstamp verso, Styria Studio, Inc., published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York, on Beckett High White paper

The full sheet printed to the edges, in generally good condition apart from two short tears at upper sheet edge (one extending 8mm into subject's hair), plus one further at lower right sheet edge (the longest measuring approx. 4cm), small soft handling creases throughout, some broken, or partially broken, a minute circular stain in lower half of subject's face, minor wear and occasional nicks at extreme sheet edges, the unprinted areas recto with pale paper discoloration, the verso with backboard-staining, some areas of water-staining, not visible recto, unframed.
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