Lot #1471: ANDY WARHOL - Van Heusen (Ronald Reagan) - Color offset lithograph

   

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Van Heusen (Ronald Reagan) [announcement]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 6 x 4 1/4 in. (152 x 108 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed small. Light cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Good condition; two small areas of skinning from tape removal, verso, does not telegraph through to recto. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Undoubtedly to be included in the forthcoming revised edition of the catalogue raisonne of Warhol's ephemera by Paul Marechal; cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.356. Comment(s): No auction records located. The image of this scarce announcement was issued as one of the silkscreens in Warhol's famous 'Ads' portfolio, one of his most sought after series. Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York City. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28597-1-800]