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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
ANDY WARHOL Liz.
Color offset lithograph on paper, 1964. 558x555 mm; 21 7/8x21 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 300. Signed in ball-point pen and black ink, lower right. Printed by Total Color, New York. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
The actress Elizabeth Taylor, then at the height of her career, was one of Warhol's (1928-1987, see lot 210, lots 229-244) most cherished icons and subjects, and he created over a dozen paintings of her. This particular image was sourced from a publicity photograph from 1960 that he reproduced in a number of works. Elizabeth Taylor fascinated and consumed Warhol, as she epitomized his obsession with female celebrity. Feldman 7.
