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ANDY WARHOL | Heaven and Hell Are Just One Breath Away! (Negative)

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Description

  • Andy Warhol
  • Heaven and Hell Are Just One Breath Away! (Negative)
  • stamped by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (on the overlap); numbered 'PA10.364' (on the stretcher)
  • synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas
  • 50.8 by 40.6 cm. 20 by 16 in.
  • Painted in 1985-1986

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York. Private Collection.

Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 16 November 2016, lot 115.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. 

Exhibited

London, Gagosian Gallery, Andy WarholB&W Paintings Ads and Illustrations 1985-1986, 2002 (illustrated, n.p.). This exhibition later travelled to New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2002.  

Literature

Charles Stuckey, Andy Warhol: Heaven and Hell are Just One Breath Away! Late Paintings and Related Works 1984-1986, New York, 1992 (another example illustrated, p. 139 and on the back cover).
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann (ed.), Andy Warhol: The Last Supper, exh. cat., Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen/Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, 1998 (another example illustrated, p. 43). Gianni Mercurio (ed.), Andy Warhol: pentiti e non peccare più = repent and sin no more!, exh. cat., Rome, Chiostro di S. Maria della Pace, 2006-2007 (another example illustrated, p. 259).