Lot 163
  • 163

ANDY WARHOL | One Dollar Bills (Backs)

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • One Dollar Bills (Backs)
  • acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
  • 8 5/8 by 39 1/8 in. 21.9 by 99.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1962.

Provenance

Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998

Exhibited

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol Early Hand-Painted Works, September-October 2005, p. 102, illustrated in color

Literature

Georg Frei and Neil Printz, Eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue RaisonnĂ©: Paintings and Sculptures 1961-1963, Vol. 01, New York 2002, cat. no. 161, p. 145, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of wear and handling along the edges, which are fabric taped, including hairline craquelure at the pull margins with a very minor associated area of loss at the lower right corner. Under extreme raking light hairline craquelure is visible in the green dollar bills. Under Ultraviolet inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

This work is stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol and twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and numbered VF PA59.009 on the overlap.