Sale 1151
New York
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14 November 2002
Price realised
USD 19,120
Estimate
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Torso (Double) stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamps and numbered UP56.12 (on the reverse) unique screenprint on paper 30½ x 43 in. (77.5 x 109.2 cm.) Executed circa 1982.
Provenance
The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York
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Literature
F. Feldman and J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, New York, 1997, p. 221, no. IIIA.18 (other examples illustrated in color).
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