Aug 13, 2020 - Sale 2544

Sale 2544 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SIGNED BY WARHOL AND A STAR FROM HIS 25-HOUR FILM
ANDY WARHOL, VIVA (JANET SUSAN MARY HOFFMANN)


One dollar bill Signed by both, "Andy / Warhol," on verso, and "Viva!" on recto, with her holograph sketch over Washington's portrait.
64x152 mm; 2 1/2x6 inches, scattered creases, faint soiling to margins verso. [Frederick, MD, 1968].

A March 22, 1968 article in The Blue and Grey, the student newspaper of Hood College in Frederick, MD, records a film screening of an excerpt from Warhol's 25-hour film Four Stars at the nearby Thomas Johnson High School auditorium. The screening included the appearance of the filmmaker and one of the film's performers, Viva, who answered questions and signed autographs.