ANDY WARHOL | Detail of the Last Supper

The Estate of Andy Warhol, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in October 1998)
Sotheby’s, New York, 15 November 2007, Lot 307
Acquired from the above by the present owners

Munich, Bayerrische Staatsgemäldesammlunen/Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Andy Warhol: The Last Supper, May - September 1998, p. 60, illustrated in colour Marfa, Ayn Foundation at the Brite Building, The Last Supper, September 2005

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals some light wear and rub marks in intermittent places to all four extreme overturn edges and to the extreme corner tips. Further very close inspection reveals a few tiny media accretions to the centre of the composition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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This work is stamped by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and numbered PA82.003 on the overlap, is numbered PA82.003 on the stretcher and is stamped by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on the reverse.