ANDY WARHOL (1928 - 1987) The New Spirit (Donald Duck).
Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, 1985. 965x965 mm; 38x38 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed and numbered 168/190 in pencil, lower left. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, with the blind stamp lower left. With the artist, publisher, and Walt Disney copyright ink stamps, verso. From Ads. Feldman-Schellmann II.357.
In his Ads portfolio, Andy Warhol returned to the theme of consumerism. The New Spirit is based on an image of Donald Duck copyrighted by Walt Disney Productions from the same-titled 1942 animated short film produced by Disney and the US Department of the Treasury as part of war propaganda.
