Dollar Sign

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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Dollar Sign
stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. stamps and numbered 'PA30.086' (on the overlap); stamped with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. stamp again (on the reverse)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1981.

Provenance

Estate of Andy Warhol, New York
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private collection, Europe
Max Lang Gallery, New York
Private collection, Los Angeles
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 2012, lot 221
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol: $, November 2007, pl. 46 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is the money on the wall" (A. Warhol in A. Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to Z and Back Again, New York 1975, p. 134).

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