Sold
$2,359,000
Est
$2,000,000
-
$3,000,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Andy Warhol
Size
50 1/4 x 40 in. (127.6 x 101.6 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED ASIAN COLLECTION
Medium
silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas
Signature
Executed in 1973.
Provenance
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
Heiner Bastian Fine Art, Berlin
Dr. Erich Marx, Berlin
Mugrabi Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Christie’s, New York, November 8, 2005, lot 52 (erroneously dated circa 1978-1979)
Galerie Sho, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Asia
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Hans F. Schweers, Gemälde in deutschen Museen: Katalog der ausgestellten und depotgelagerten Werke, Part I, Band 4, Munich, 2002, p. 2197
Exhibited
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Kyoto, Daimaru Museum, Pop Muses, Images of Women by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, August 29, 1991–March 17, 1992, no. 49, p. 144 (illustrated, n.p.; erroneously dated 1978)
Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Sammlung Marx, vol. 2, November 1996, no. 17, p. 48 (illustrated, p. 49)
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; London, Tate Modern, Andy Warhol Retrospective, October 2, 2001–April 1, 2002, no. 216, p. 313 (illustrated, p. 262)
Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, SuperWarhol, July 16–August 31, 2003, no. 125, p. 530 (illustrated, p. 285)