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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Andy Warhol

Carat

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987


Carat

water-based paint on canvas

52 ¼ by 48 in.

132.7 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Frederick W. Hughes, New York 

Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich 

Acquired from the above circa 1993 by the present owner

Georg Frei and Neil Printz, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture 1961-1963, New York, 2004, no. 28, pp. 44, 48 (text) and p. 46, illustrated in color

María Belén Sáenz de Ibarra, "Face to Face," ArtNexus, No. 69, June - August 2008, p. 60 (text)

Anthony E. Grudin, Television Dreams: Andy Warhol and the History of Postwar Advertising, Berkeley, 2008, no. 35, p. 318, illustrated and p. 154 (text)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (and traveling), Warhol Headlines, 2011 - 2013, no. 14, p. 46, illustrated in color

Anthony E. Grudin, "'Except Like a Tracing': Defectiveness, Accuracy, and Class in Early Warhol," October, Vol. 140, Spring 2012, p. 161, illustrated

Jean-Christophe Ammann, A Selection from the Daros Collection, Zürich, 2012, no. 38, n.p., illustrated in color

Anthony E. Grudin, Warhol's Working Class: Pop Art and Egalitarianism, Chicago, 2017, no. 20, p. 68 (text) and p. 69 illustated

Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien and Frankfurt, Kunstverein, The Language of Art: The Relationship between Image and Text in 20th Century Art, September 1993 - February 1994, no. 135, p. 201, illustrated

Zürich, Daros Exhibitions, Warhol, Polke, Richter: In the Power of Painting 1: A Selection from the Daros Collection, May - September 2001, p. 41, illustrated in color

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol: Early Hand-Painted Works, September - October 2005, p. 51, illustrated in color and p. 118 illustrated in color (in installation)

Zürich, Daros Exhibitions, Face to Face: The Daros Collections, Part 1, October 2007 - February 2008, no. 10, p. 29, illustrated in color

Zürich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Andy Warhol. Black & White + Silver, June - July 2019, p. 3, illustrated in color and p. 15 (text)