Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Mao

Price realised GBP 6,985,250
Estimate
GBP 6,000,000 – GBP 8,000,000
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Mao

Price realised GBP 6,985,250
Closed: 28 Jun 2011
Price realised GBP 6,985,250
Closed: 28 Jun 2011
Details
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Mao
signed and dated 'Andy Warhol 73' (on the overlap)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
50 x 42in. (127 x 106.7cm.)
Executed in 1973
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Knoedler and Company, New York.
Todd Brassner, New York.
Irving Galleries Fine Arts, Milwaukee.
Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Levy, Milwaukee.
Armand P. Bartos, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1989 (installation view illustrated, p. 332).
Andy Warhol: Paintings 1960-1986, exh. cat., Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1995 (installation view illustrated, p. 63).
Andy Warhol: A Factory, exh. cat., Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 1999-2000 (installation view illustrated, p. 399).
S. King-Nero and N. Printz (eds.), The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Sculptures, 1970-1974, vol. 03, New York 2010, pp. 167, 176 and 181, no. 2300 (illustrated in colour, p. 205 and installation view p. 180 and p. 254).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée Galliera, Andy Warhol: Mao, 1974.
Bogota, Museo de Arte Moderna, Color as Language, 1975. This exhibition later travelled to Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo.
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Warhol-Beuys-Polke, 1987, no. 15 (illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum.
Hong Kong, Christie's, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Mao, 2008, no. 3 (illustrated in colour).
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