Andy Warhol: Yours Truly | An Important Private Collection
Andy Warhol: Yours Truly | An Important Private Collection
Property from an Important Private Collection
Andy Warhol
Details of Renaissance Paintings (Leonardo da Vinci, The Annunciation, 1472)
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October 27, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from an Important Private Collection
Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987
Details of Renaissance Paintings (Leonardo da Vinci, The Annunciation, 1472)
each signed in pencil and inscribed AP 12/15
the complete set of four screenprints in colors on Arches Aquarelle Cold Pressed paper
sheets: 32 by 44 in. 813 by 1118 mm.
Executed in 1984; this is an artist's proof set aside from the numbered edition of 60, published by Editions Schellmann & Klüser, and with their inkstamp on the verso.
(4 prints)
“…he exploited the mechanical and commercial implications of silkscreening to challenge the uniqueness of individual easel paintings and the mystique of the artist’s hand, undermining concepts inherent in Western art since the Renaissance.”
Roberta Bernstein, 'Warhol as Printmaker', in Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, eds., New York, p. 14, 1989.