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After Andy Warhol, Silkscreens in Colors, ‘Mao Portfolio’, 1972

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,200.00 EUR Estimated At:1,920.00 - 2,400.00 EUR
After Andy Warhol, Silkscreens in Colors, ‘Mao Portfolio’, 1972
5 silkscreens in colors on museum board
USA, New York, 1972/2011
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – American artist and filmmaker
Later edition published by Sunday B. Morning
All prints stamped on verso with ‘fill in your own signature’ and ‘published by Sunday B. Morning’
With certificates by Editor Sunday B. Morning, from 1/12/2011 for each sheet
Complete portfolio
Catalog raisonné: compare Feldman/Schellmann 90-99
Sheet size: 85 x 75 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: Private Collection, USA
Andy Warhol's famous ‘Mao’ belong next to the ‘Marilyn’ or ‘Flowers’ silkscreens to the icons of American Pop Art; the silkscreens by Sunday B. Morning as a portfolio are also highly sought after and fetch up to 19,000 euro on the international auction market

This portfolio includes 5 silkscreens in colors showing the Portrait of Chinese Communist revolutionary “Mao” Zedong after Andy Warhol. The portrait is based on a photograph from the famous Little Red Book ‘The Thoughts of Chairman Mao’, which was published in Beijing in 1972. The original Warhol prints were so successful in his days that further editions emerged for the European market. They were published since the 1970s by Sunday B. Morning, stamped on the reverse ‘published by Sunday B. Morning’ and ‘fill in your own signature’. Due to the high demand, these editions also achieve high prices on the art market.



The portfolio is overall in very good condition without significant signs of wear. With certificates by Editor Sunday B. Morning, from 1/12/2011 for each sheet. The image and sheet size measures 85 x 75 cm.



Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol, founder and leading figure of the American Pop Art, was born in 1928 as a son of a Russian family in Pennsylvania. He began his career as an artist by creating advertising graphics. Already in 1956, he presented his graphic works at the Museum of Modern Art. In the early 1960s Warhol began experimenting with different techniques and started focusing on typically American objects of the consumer society, as for example Campbell’s soup cans or Coca Cola bottles. In 1962 Warhol started with his series of portraits of famous stars, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, who were then at the height of their career. His renowned studio ‘The Factory’ was a meeting point for internationally successful artists, actors and musicians. As early as the 1970s galleries started exhibiting Warhol’s work, which is now part of some of the most famous collections, such as the Modern Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the d’Art Moderne in Paris. (cru)




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