Contemporary Art Day Auction

Contemporary Art Day Auction

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Property from a Private New York Collection

Andy Warhol

Sarah Bernhardt (from Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century)

Auction Closed

November 17, 06:59 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private New York Collection

Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987

Sarah Bernhardt (from Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century)


signed and dated 80 on the overlap

acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas

40 by 40 in. 101.6 by 101.6 cm.

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh 

Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 2001

Ken Johnson, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Subject for Warhol," New York Times, 28 March 2008
London, National Portrait Gallery, Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century, January - July 2006
New York, Jewish Museum; San Francisco, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, March - August 2008