Andy Warhol

Screenprint in colours, 1972, signed in ball-point pen and stamp-numbered 98/250 verso, on Beckett High White paper, with the artist's copyright and printer's inkstamp verso, Styria Studio, Inc., NY, published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., NY, framed

The full sheet, printed to the edges, in good condition apart from a small abrasion in the blue background above the black scribble at left, occasional scuff marks and some minor creases only visible upon close inspection (some slightly broken), extreme sheet edges with minor imperfections such as losses in the blue ink at places, a minute horizontal tear at upper left sheet edge supported by the hinge verso (approx. 5mm), a minute horizontal tear in lower right sheet edge (approx. 3mm), a pin hole in the lower right corner, the verso with pale backboard-staining and remains of previous hinges at sheet edges, framed.
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