ID 849933
Lot 254 | Andy Warhol
Estimate value
€ 70 000 – 90 000
1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA - 1987 New York
Title: Beethoven.
Date: 1987.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum card.
Sheet Size: 101.5 x 101.5cm.
Notation: Verso certificate stamp with the handwritten numbering as well as the signatures of the publisher, printer and estate agent.
Publisher: Hermann Wünsche, Bonn (publisher).
Number: TP 19/72.
Frame: Framed.
The sheet is equipped with the blind stamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York.
The work was published outside the 4-part portfolio and is one of the 72 individually designed TP copies. Thus the work is of unique character.
Provenance:
- Galerie Wünsche, Bonn
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature:
- Feldman, Frayda/Schellmann, Jörg: Andy Warhol Prints - A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Milan 2003 (4th ed.), cat. rais. no. IIB.390-393
- One of the outstanding portraits of the artist, created shortly before his death
- The portrait was commissioned by Hermann Wünsche on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of Bonn, the capital of Germany at that time
- The Beethoven portrait by the artist Joseph Karl Stieler from 1821 served as a model, which he masterfully combined with the score of the " Mondscheinsonate"
- Expressive and unique colour variation.
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| Artist: | Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) |
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| Applied technique: | Screen printing |
| Auction house category: | Post War Prints |
| Artist: | Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) |
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| Applied technique: | Screen printing |
| Auction house category: | Post War Prints |
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