ANDY WARHOL (1928 - 1987) | Wayne Gretzky #99 (Feldman & Schellmann IIB.306)

Screenprint in a unique color combination, 1984, signed in pencil by Frederick Hughes, the executor of the artist's estate, on a stamped certificate of authenticity on the verso, inscribed 'TP 28/46', a trial proof aside from the numbered edition of 300 plus 50 artist's proofs, also signed in marker by the subject and dated '99', on Lenox Museum Board, with the blindstamp of the printer, Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by Frans Wynans, Vancouver, unframed

The print is in good condition, the full sheet. An occasional inconspicuous scuff visible in raking light. A few small spots of paper fiber adhered to the top layer of ink at left center. A spot of surface soiling and two small pressure marks in the lower right corner. The right corners with slight creasing and traces of ink at the extreme sheet edges. The verso with hinge remnants in the upper corners and some spots of stray ink and minor surface soiling.
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