May 25, 2017 - Sale 2449

Sale 2449 - Lot 313

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) ANDY WARHOL. COBBLER SQUARE. / BENEFIT FOR THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART. 1985.
30x24 inches, 76 1/4x61 cm.
Condition A-: minor creases and abrasions in margins and image; minor overpainting along scratch in image; hand-signed by the artist in black marker. Paper.
"Warhol was the guest of honor at the event advertised by this poster: a cocktail benefit reception . . . Tickets, sold at the door for twenty dollars, offered guests the opportunity to purchase one of 200 posters signed by Warhol at a cost of thirty five dollars each . . . only 500 were printed" (Warhol Posters p. 119). Warhol Posters 42.