WARHOL, ANDY
1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA - 1987 New York
Title: Siberian Tiger.
Subtitle: From: Endangered Species.
Date: 1983.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum card.
Depiction Size: 96,5 x 96,5cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered.
Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York (publisher).
Number: 121/150.
Frame: Framed.
The sheet bears the blindstamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. The artist's copyright stamp is verso.
Provenance:
- Schellmann Art, Munich (acc. to the consignor)
- Private collection, South Germany
Literature:
- Feldman, Frayda/Schellmann, Jörg: Andy Warhol - Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Milan 2003 (4th ed.), cat. rais. no. II. 297, ill.
- One of the most impressive motifs from the portfolio "Endangered Species"
- The portfolio draws attention to the destruction of animal habitats and is still highly relevant today
- Warhol gives the animal portrait a strong presence and an iconic character.
