Lot #271: ANDY WARHOL - Hermann Hesse - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Hermann Hesse".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1984. Printed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 23 1/8 x 16 7/16 in. (587 x 418 mm).
Lot Note(s): Hand-signed in black felt tip pen, lower left; stamped with the Warhol ink stamp in the plate; Hesse's signature in the plate. Edition unknown, presumed very small. Cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Good to very good condition; folds as issued for mailing; affixed to a very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Feldman/Schellmann IIIC.71. Comment(s): The very rare poster published in Germany in 1985. No auction records located. Undoubtedly to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Warhol's non-commissioned posters by Paul Marechal. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [30451-4-2400]