安迪‧沃荷

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1996

Frayda Feldman & Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987, New York 1997, p. 44, no. I.5 [a], illustrated
Frayda Feldman & Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987, New York 2003, p. 48, no. I.5 [a], illustrated

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the white is cooler in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a light undulation to the paper and a very short nick to the bottom centre of the right edge, and a small fold just above it.
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"I realized that everything I was doing must have been Death. It was Christmas or Labor Day - a holiday - and every time you turned on the radio they said something like '4 million are going to die.' That started it. But when you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn't really have any effect."

The artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Houston, The Menil Collection, Andy Warhol Death and Disasters, 1988, p. 19