ANDY WARHOL | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (F. & S. II.335)

Screenprint in colours, 1986, from Reigning Queens, signed in pencil, numbered 22/40 (total edition includes ten artist's proofs), with the printer's blindstamp, Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by George C. P. Mulder, Amsterdam, on Lenox Museum Board, framed 

The sheet appears to be full though the dimensions are approximately 4mm smaller than those in the catalogue raisonné (perhaps due to ares of minor rippling), in good condition apart from a broken handling crease in the upper left background, a horizontal broken crease on the subject's left shoulder, touched in in places, a minor surface scratch in the lower left background (measuring approximately 4cm), some adhesive remains at sheet edges (only visible in a raking light) with associated minor areas of pigment loss, a small inconsistent area in the mint green at extreme right (possibly associated with handling at the time of production), framed.
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