ANDY WARHOL (1928 -1987) Maquette for "U.N. Stamp" (Green, Yellow, Blue).
Unique color screenprint on acetate and colored paper collage on board, 1979. 394x515 mm; 15½x20¼ inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.
Provenance Estate of the artist, with the ink stamps verso. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York. Purchased from the above by current owner, Paris, November 30, 2005.
Note This lot is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., with the registration number TOP 110.029.
In 1979 Andy Warhol designed the U.N. Stamp to benefit the United Nations Disaster Relief Organization. These offset lithographs, accompanied by a United States or Swiss stamp with a first-day cover cancellation were issued as signed editions of 1,000 (see Feldman-Schellmann II.185).
