Andy Warhol

The work is stamped by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board on the verso, annotated A141.083, printed by Styria Studio, Inc., New York, Published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples Inc., New York

The full sheet, printed to the edges, with fresh colours, in good condition apart from a few of minor handling creases (with associated hairline cracks in the ink surface in the centre of the black hair, below the nose and in the green at upper right, only visible upon close inspection in a raking light), minor creasing at extreme sheet edges at corners, the extreme left of upper edge partially skinned, a minute skinned spot at lower left tip, paper slightly toned in the unprinted areas. The verso with a small area of superficial skinning through the vertical centre of the sheet, remains of hinging tape at intervals along three edges, framed under Plexiglas.
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