Lot #2790: ANDY WARHOL - Queen Notombi (#2) - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Queen Notombi (#2)".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1985.
Dimensions: Image size: 7 x 5 9/16 in. (178 x 141 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $225
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $300/400
Lot Note(s): Signed in black felt tip pen, upper left. Edition unknown, presumed very small. Light cream wove paper. Fine impression. Fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.347.
Comment(s): Very scarce, and rare signed. Issued to promote the portfolio "Reigning Queens" published by George Mulder, Amsterdam. The portfolio consists of 16 separate images of each of four reigning queens: Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Beatrix, Queen Margrethe II, and Queen Ntombi Twala, all printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Apparently there were very small quantities of this lithograph printed for distribution at the opening night reception and they went quickly. The reception was held in the late afternoon of September 20th, 1985 at Castelli Uptown and the exhibition ran from September 21st to October 12th. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28669-1-225-NA]