Property from an Important Private Collection
Andy Warhol
Mao
Auction Closed
October 27, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987
Mao
nine signed in ball-point pen on the verso and variously stamp-numbered, one signed in felt-tip pen, inscribed a proof and dedicated
the set of ten screenprints in colors on Beckett High White paper, with the original box for 42/250
sheets: 36 by 36 in. 914 by 914 mm
Executed in 1972; nine impressions are from the edition of 250 plus 50 artist's proofs, one impression is a proof aside from the edition, published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples Inc.
(10 prints)
“If Warhol can be regarded as an artist of strategy, his choice of Mao as a subject - as the ultimate star - was brilliant. The image of Mao taken from the portrait photograph reproduced in the Chairman's so-called Little Red Book, is probably the one recognised by more of the earth's population than any other - a ready-made icon representing absolute political and cultural power. In Warhol's hands, this image could be considered ominously and universally threatening, or a parody or both.”
MCSHINE, ANDY WARHOL RETROSPECTIVE, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, 1989, P. 19.
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