Lot #1447: ANDY WARHOL - Trucks Suite - Color offset lithographs

                     

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Trucks Suite [the complete set of four cards in the original printed folder, each card signed by Warhol, the folder itself signed, dated, and annotated ‘love’ by Warhol - a ‘mini portfolio’]".
Medium: Color offset lithographs.
Date: Composed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: (each) 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (171 x 171 mm). Image size: (each) 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (171 x 171 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $3,000
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $4,000/5,000
Lot Note(s): All cards and portfolio cover signed in black marker by Warhol. Edition unknown, presumed small (500?). Light cream stiff wove paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine impressions. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Marechal, “Andy Warhol Ephemera…Catalogue Raisonne, 1950-1987.” Lyon, France: Les amis du Musee de l’Imprimerie, 2018, Section 8c, no. 38; cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.367-370.
Comment(s): This "mini-portfolio" is scarce and sought after, especially since the set of four ‘Truck’ editioned screenprints fetched $118,750 at Christie's, New York (October 27, 2015, lot #301). The set is rarely seen and ‘Gordon’s’ does not record a signed example at auction. The only record of an unsigned set in ‘Gordon’s’ is a sale for $3,250 at Rago Arts & Auction on November 17, 2012, lot #668. Published by Hermann Wunsche, Bonn, Germany, in cooperation with the Bundesverband des Deutschen Guterfernverkehrs to announce and commemorate the XXth World Congress of the International Road Transport Union at Frankfurt, Germany, June 2 to June 6, 1986. The set of four works was exhibited at Hans Schuller, Bonn, Germany, from July 3 to August 23, 1986, and the invitation/announcement cards were also used on that occasion. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York City. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29005-2-3000-NA]