Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Bank - RCA Color Scanner".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1968.
Dimensions: Overall size: 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (400 x 603 mm). Image size: 13 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. (346 x 565 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Marechal, "Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Posters, 1964-1987," #8. Comment(s): A very rare Warhol poster. No auction records located. Unlike the similar, larger, "Bank" poster this version was folded in four and inserted in a trade magazine for professional printers. RCA hoped that readers would remove it from the magazine and display it on the wall to promote the new scanner to clientele. However, our example is not folded as a very few of these objects were set aside for face-to-face marketing. It is rubber-stamped "Irwin Horowitz, Represented by Fritzie Miller Assoc" and was used by Horowitz's agency to promote Horowitz's photography work. The complete title is "We Took Our Plush Piggy Bank Apart in a Lot Less Time Than It Took Andy Warhol to Put Him Together in the First Place (There's a Lot of Bacon in It for Someone). RCA ColorScanner." Photograph by Irwin Horowitz. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28740-4-3000] |
