Andy WARHOL limited edition lithograph Brooke HAYWARD

Andy Warhol, signed in print & numbered

I'm offering a rare lithograph from the set "Portraits of the 70s" from ANDY WARHOL (6.8.1928 – 22.2.1987) stamped authenticated by the editor (CMOA Carnegie Museum of Art).

Facts:

Artist: Andy Warhol

Arch / Motive: 40 cm * 50 cm / 30 cm * 30 cm

Motive: Brooke Hayward, 1973

Editor: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh

Year of Edition: 1986

Limited Edition: 620 / 2400 / numbered with pencil on front, on verso stamped CMOA

Reference: Portraits of the 70s, page 55

Signature: signed in stone

Condition: perfect, no tears & creases

This unique print is from a limited edition and not like the often offered unlimited prints from Andy WARHOL with the note "published by Sunday B. Morning" and "fill in your signature". You get here an uncomparable signed in print lithograph with a lasting and steady rising value.

This stunning collections of 112 Andy WARHOL portraits - two variations each of 56 people - is published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Celebrated in the sixties for his Pop paintings of Campbell's soup cans, film stars and disasters, WARHOL has found equal renown in the seventies with his commissioned portraiture. Here, in glorious color, are Andy's remarkable interpretations of his friends: collectors, art dealers and the Beautiful People. Among those included are Diane von Furstenberg, Halston, Mick Jagger, Brooke Hayward , Liza Minelli, Carolina Herrera and Yves St. Laurent. The introductory essay by Robert Rosenblum, one of America's most distinguished art historians, places WARHOL's work in the context of traditional portrait painting. In translating "the journalistic medium of photography into the realm of art", WARHOL revised this traditional at a time when it had been largely abandoned by most serious artists. His use of the mechanized look of commercial photography grants WARHOL a new "aesthetic language" and an utterly contemporary style that paradoxically preserves its subject for prosperity. WARHOL, as Rosenblum remarks, is a celebrity among celebrities, the "ideal court painter to the 1970s international aristocracy". Individually these portraits capture the complex personalities of their subjects; together they capture the look of society in this decade. Brooke HAYWARD, at once ravishingly worldly and devastatingly innocent; Carolina HERRERA, a queen tigress among tigerwomen....

Price structure WARHOL prints

handsigned & numbered (250 series) min. NOK 140000

signed in stone & numbered (see this auction, 3000 series) min. NOK 10000

unsigned & unlimited Sunday B. Morning editions (silkscreens) min. NOK 3000

posters min. NOK 100

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FAQs:

COA: The only serious COA for Warhol prints comes from the Board of the Warhol Foundation. The examination costs are all in all about NOK 10000. It will be issued for handsigned lithographs or handpaintings which have value of min. NOK 140000.

Provenance: All the offered prints come directly from the editor.

The spot on the upper side is a magnet for fixing the print .

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Europe NOK 200