Lot was sold
Lot 254 | Andy Warhol | Beethoven
Estimate
70.000
- 90.000
€
D
Result:
(incl. premium)
132.000 €
WARHOL, ANDY
1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA - 1987 New York
Title: Beethoven.
Date: 1987.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum card.
Depiction Size: 101.5 x 101.5cm.
Notation: . Verso certificate stamp with the handwritten numbering as well as the signatures of the publisher, printer and estate agent.
Publisher: Hermann Wünsche, Bonn (publisher).
Number: TP 19/72.
Frame: Framed.
The sheet is equipped with the blind stamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York.
The work was published outside the 4-part portfolio and is one of the 72 individually designed TP copies. Thus the work is of unique character.
Provenance:
- Galerie Wünsche, Bonn
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature:
- Feldman, Frayda/Schellmann, Jörg: Andy Warhol Prints - A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Milan 2003 (4th ed.), cat. rais. no. IIB.390-393
- One of the outstanding portraits of the artist, created shortly before his death
- The portrait was commissioned by Hermann Wünsche on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of Bonn, the capital of Germany at that time
- The Beethoven portrait by the artist Joseph Karl Stieler from 1821 served as a model, which he masterfully combined with the score of the " Mondscheinsonate"
- Expressive and unique colour variation.
1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA - 1987 New York
Title: Beethoven.
Date: 1987.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum card.
Depiction Size: 101.5 x 101.5cm.
Notation: . Verso certificate stamp with the handwritten numbering as well as the signatures of the publisher, printer and estate agent.
Publisher: Hermann Wünsche, Bonn (publisher).
Number: TP 19/72.
Frame: Framed.
The sheet is equipped with the blind stamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York.
The work was published outside the 4-part portfolio and is one of the 72 individually designed TP copies. Thus the work is of unique character.
Provenance:
- Galerie Wünsche, Bonn
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature:
- Feldman, Frayda/Schellmann, Jörg: Andy Warhol Prints - A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Milan 2003 (4th ed.), cat. rais. no. IIB.390-393
- One of the outstanding portraits of the artist, created shortly before his death
- The portrait was commissioned by Hermann Wünsche on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of Bonn, the capital of Germany at that time
- The Beethoven portrait by the artist Joseph Karl Stieler from 1821 served as a model, which he masterfully combined with the score of the " Mondscheinsonate"
- Expressive and unique colour variation.
Contact:
Robert van den Valentyn
Partner & Abteilungsleiter
Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art
+49 221 92 58 62 300
Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art
+49 221 92 58 62 300
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Stock Id: 75576-1
