
Bardot by Warhol: From the Gunter Sachs Collection
Brigitte Bardot
Auction Closed
May 15, 12:36 AM GMT
Estimate
14,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Bardot by Warhol: From the Gunter Sachs Collection
Andy Warhol
(1928 - 1987)
Brigitte Bardot
signed with the artist's initials and dated 74 (on the overlap)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
47 ¼ by 47 ¼ in.
120 by 120 cm.
Executed in 1974.
Gunter Sachs, Switzerland (commissioned directly from the artist)
Gunnar Sachs (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Gagosian Gallery, Warhol: Bardot, October - November 2011, pp. 37, 46, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover)
Kunsthalle Schweinfurt; Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt; Munich, Münchner Künstlerhaus; and Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Gunter Sachs — The Art of the Camera, March 2019 - May 2022, p. 104, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Gunter Sachs — Retrospektive, 2003, n.p., illustrated in color (installed in Gunter Sachs' St. Moritz residence)
Exh. Cat., Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Gunter Sachs, 2008, p. 63, illustrated in color (installed in Gunter Sachs' St. Moritz residence)
Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, eds., Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3: Paintings and Sculptures, 1970-1974, New York 2010, no. 2718, p. 449, illustrated in color and p. 453 (text)
Jonathan Jones, "The Immaculate Conception of Andy Warhol's Women," The Guardian, 25 September 2011, illustrated in color (detail) (online)
Exh. Cat., Munich, Museum Villa Stuck (and traveling), Die Sammlung Gunter Sachs, 2012-14, p. 19, illustrated in color (installed in Gunter Sachs' St. Moritz residence) and p. 29 (text)
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