Auction 509 Part 2 Day Sale
Nov 30, 2023
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
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LOT 565:

Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol: Goethe

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Start price:
56,000
Estimated price :
€70,000 - €90,000
Buyer's Premium: 32%
VAT: 19% On commission only
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Auction took place on Nov 30, 2023 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Andy Warhol: Goethe
WARHOL, ANDY
1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA - 1987 New York

Title: Goethe.
Date: 1982.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum card.
Sheet Size: 96.5 x 96.5cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered.
Publisher: Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich; Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (publisher).
Number: 80/100.
Frame: Framed.

The sheet is equipped with the blind stamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Verso is the artist's copyright stamp.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literatur:
- Feldman, Frayda/Schellmann, Jörg: Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987,
Milan 2003 (4th ed.), cat. rais. no. IIB.270, ill.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the epitome of German classicism, becomes an icon of Pop Art through Warhol's reinterpretation
- Based on Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein's painting "Goethe in der Römischen Campagna", which is in the possession of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt
- From the 4-part portfolio in an attractive colour version.

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