ANDY WARHOL (1928 1987) Maquette for UN Stamp (Orange Blue

Sale 2688 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 30,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928 -1987)
Maquette for "U.N. Stamp" (Orange, Blue, Purple).

Unique color screenprint on acetate and colored paper collage on board, 1979. 360x426 mm; 14¼x16¾ 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 110.028.

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Additional Details

This design by Andy Warhol was chosen for the U.N. Stamp to benefit the United Nations Disaster Relief Organization in 1979. 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).