ANDY WARHOL | Mao (F. & S. II.93)

Screenprint in colors, 1972, signed in ball-point pen on the verso and stamped 'PP', one of a very small number of printer's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 250 plus 50 artist's proofs, on Beckett High White paper, printed by Styria Studio, Inc., New York, and with their inkstamp on the verso, published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York, framed

The print is in good condition, the full sheet, the colors are very good. A very thin inconspicuous surface scratch in the center of the image. (A few handling creases with associated hairline cracks to the ink and sheet edges curling up slightly.) Verso with a few small brown stains and remains from prior hinges at two sheet edges.
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