Lot 144
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ANDY WARHOL | Self-Portrait with Skeleton's Arm (After Munch) (F. & S. IIIA.61)

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Self-Portrait with Skeleton's Arm (After Munch) (F. & S. IIIA.61)
  • sheet: 1502 by 1020mm 59 1/8 by 40 1/8 in
The very rare screenprint in a unique combination of colours, 1984, from an unpublished edition of only a few unique colour variants, with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts inkstamps verso, annotated 'UP35.09' and 'T. J. H.' in pencil verso, this impression most likely illustrated in Feldman & Schellmann, printed by Jupert Jasen Smith, New York, on Arches Aquarelle paper, framed

Provenance

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

Exhibited

Humlebæk, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Warhol After Munch, June – September 2010

Condition

The full sheet, in good condition, with a circular, calcified water stain (approx. 3in) in the lower right portion of the image (in the black), framed. (A small rust-coloured stain at the lower left sheet edge). (Inconspicuous pressure marks at intervals along sheet edges verso, possibly from previous framing).
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