Silkscreen in colors with rayon satin finish. Signed and numbered. Verso with the copyright stamp. One of 45 Trial Proofs. On Lenox Museum cardboard. 101.6 x 81.3 cm. , nearly the full sheet.
Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York (with the blind stamp). Published by Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich/New York (with the copyright stamp on the reverse). [AW].

• Two masters: Warhol immortalizes Beuys in a work that also bears witness to his own artistic understanding.
• The idea for the portrait series originated in 1979 during Beuys’ highly acclaimed retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
• Beuys’s preferred material, felt, is reflected in the haptic quality of the color silkscreen.
• Unique due to its custom coloring.
• Warhol’s Beuys portraits are represented in renowned museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate London, and the Philadelphia Art Museum.
LITERATURE: Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi, Andy Warhol Prints. A catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, CR no. IIB. 242-244 (illustrated in color on p. 182, this copy).

Publisher's collection, Germany (acquired directyl from the artist around 1983)

In good, nearly mint condition. The edges of the sheet are very slightly bumped in places. There are isolated instances of tiny material loss and slight rubbing, which are mainly visible under raking light. There are isolated instances of tiny, localized printing marks. The satin finish is slightly peeling, but this does not detract from the overall beautiful appearance.