Lot #198: ANDY WARHOL - Fifty Dollar Grant - Color engraving and letterpress

   

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Fifty Dollar Grant".
Medium: Color engraving and letterpress.
Date: Composed Series 1981.
Dimensions: Overall size: 2 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (67 x 156 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $2,000
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,500/3,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker. Fine condition. Provenance: Private collection, Manhattan, NYC, purchased from the estate of a collector who had acquired the object directly from the artist.
Comment(s): During the 1960s-1980s, Warhol occasionally would sign actual U.S.A. currency. Some auction records of signed bills include sales at Boetto (Genova), 04/18/2012; Koller (Geneva), 11/13/2010 and 11/15/2009; Tajan (Paris), 10/26/2009; Boisgirard-Guilloux (Nice), 9/19/2006. Most located sales were of $1.00 bills and a few $2.00 bills; no higher denominations. [27845-1-2000-NA]