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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
COMMITTEE 2000, 1982
screenprint; (hors de commerce, no. 29 from an edition
of 50)
signed, inscribed and numbered in pencil lower right
30 by 20in. (76.20 by 50.80cm)
Literature
:
Frayda Feldman and Jorg Schellmann,
Andy Warhol
Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987
, Fourth
Edition, D.A.P., New York, 2003, catalogue reference F&S
II. 289 (another edition illustrated, p.128)
Designed in 1982 by Andy Warhol the present work was
created to raise funds for The Committee 2000, an
organisation set up to work on projects to commemorate the
third millennium. It was printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New
York on Lenox Museum Board in a total edition of 2,000 and
200 artist’s proofs, 25 printer’s proofs, 50 hors de commerce
and 5 trial proofs. Published by Committee 2000, Munich,
Germany.
€
3,000-
€
3,500 (£2,560-£2,990 approx.)
89
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
EDWARD KENNEDY, 1980
screenprint in colour with diamond dust; (no. 216 from an edition
of 300)
signed and numbered lower right
40 by 32in. (101.60 by 81.28cm)
Younger brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, Edward Moore
“Ted” Kennedy (1932 -2009) was elected to the US Senate in 1962 and
became a long serving senator and influential party leader over the
course of his life.The present work was created as a fundraiser by Warhol
for Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980, which he lost to Jimmy
Carter whom the artist had portrayed four years previously. Here Warhol
incorporates the blue and red of the American flag with thin gestural lines
of colour.The glamour of politics is suggested by the highlights of
diamond dust which add another dimension to the portrait.
An example from this edition can be found in the National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution,Washington DC.
€
4,000-
€
6,000 (£3,420-£5,130 approx.)
