Lot 252
  • 252

ANDY WARHOL | Abstract Painting

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Abstract Painting
  • acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
  • 51 by 40.5 cm. 20 1/8 by 16 in.
  • Executed circa 1982.

Provenance

Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Daniel Blau, London
Private Collection, Europe
Sotheby's, London, Bear Witness, 10 March 2015, Lot 138
Acquired from the above by the previous owner

Exhibited

New York, Anton Kern Gallery, Andy Warhol: Fifteen Abstract Paintings, February - March 1998

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly bluer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals very thin tension cracks running intermittently along the extreme outer edges.Close inspection reveals evidence of extremely light wear to the lower left hand corner tip. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

“Nothing can always be the subject of something. I mean, what’s nice about those paintings is you could do them every five years… anytime you wanted to, when you had the time…because there’s nothing to read into them… because even if the paints stayed the same, everything else – and everyone else – would have changed.” Andy Warhol cited in: Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cast a Cold Eye: The Late Work of Andy Warhol, 2006, p. 198



This work is stamped by The Estate of Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and numbered PA.76.010 on the overlap and stamped by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on the reverse.