Contemporary Art Day Auction

Contemporary Art Day Auction

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Andy Warhol

Kay Fortson (an American Lady)

Auction Closed

May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

450,000 - 650,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987

Kay Fortson (an American Lady)


acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas

40 ⅛ by 40 ⅛ in. 101.9 by 101.9 cm.

Executed in 1976.


This work is stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol and twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., and numbered VF PO50.330 on the overlap; numbered PO50.330 on the stretcher.

Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Exh. Cat., Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties, November 1993 - December 1995, cat. no. 19, illustrated in color
Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, Eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures late 1974-1976, Vol. 04, New York 2014, cat. no. 3379, pp. 487 and 489, illustrated in color
Paris, Galeries Nationals du Grand Palais, Le Grande Monde d'Andy Warhol, March - July 2009, cat. no. 160, p. 141, illustrated in color