Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). Title: "The Beatles #1". Medium: Original color offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1980. Dimensions: Overall size: 12 1/4 x 36 in. (311 x 914 mm). Image size: 12 1/4 x 36 in. (311 x 914 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, center left; signed in the plate. Cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition; folds as issued. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Feldman/Schellmann IIIB.5. Comment(s): We have not found a signed impression of this print at auction. The auction record for an unsigned impression is $5,437 at Artcurial-Briest, Poulain, F. Tajan (Paris), 6/25/2013, lot #206. Issued as an additional dustjacket, without title/text/banner, for initial copies of the first edition of the book 'The Beatles' by Geoffrey Stokes (Rolling Stone Press/Times Books) in 1980. Warhol created the image based on photographs by Dezo Hofmann, London. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28516-6-1200] |