Jun 14, 2012 - Sale 2281

Sale 2281 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 36,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
ANDY WARHOL
Mimosas.

Unique color screenprint and acrylic paper collage on canvas, circa 1976. 670x640 mm; 26 3/8x25 1/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Martin Lawrence Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.

The billionaire Italian cosmetics magnate and art collector Carlo Bilotti, as president of Jacqueline Cochram, a major perfume producer, commissioned Warhol to make a series of advertising images of Mimosas and Ylang Ylang to promote perfumes by Pierre Cardin.