May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

FILM FESTIVAL - LINCOLN CENTER. 1967.


45x24 1/4 inches, 114 1/4x61 1/2 cm. Chiron Press, New York.
Condition B+: cracking at sides and top right corner, repaired on verso with archival tape. Silkscreen, die-cut on opaque acrylic.

This is a proof, aside from the signed and numbered edition of 200. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, to commemorate the Fifth New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. The difference between this edition and the edition of 500 is that the black graphic text "FIFTH NEW YORK" is placed directly over the text "Film Festival of Lincoln Center;" in the edition of 500, the text black text "FIFTH NEW YORK" is placed on top of the white text. An innovative feature that appears in this special edition is a perforated line running across the surface of the print, at its triangular cut out sides, mimicking the tear line present in real commercial movie admissions tickets. Chiron Press, commissioned by Lincoln Center, devised a special process expressly to imprint the edition with this perforation using a die cut stamp. Images of an Era 72 and cover, Modern Poster 255, Modern American 132, Muller-Brockmann 121, Plakat Kunst p. 173, The Poster 633, Internationale Plakate 704, Kunstler Plakate p. 107, Warhol Posters 6, MoMA 493.1978, Feldman 19 (all var).