Live Auction 10402Prints and Multiples
Andy Warhol
Lot 124

Andy Warhol

Hammer and Sickle

Closed18 March 2015

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GBP 37,500

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Andy Warhol
Hammer and Sickle
the complete set of four screenrprints in colours, 1977, on Strathmore Bristol paper, all signed, inscribed and numbered A.P. 3/10 in pencil, artist’s proofs aside from the edition of fifty, published by Andy Warhol Enterprises Inc., New York, the full sheets, F. & S. 163 with pale mottled foxing at upper sheet edge, otherwise in good condition (4)
S. 765 x 1017 mm.
(4)

Specialist note

“Everybody’s always asking me if I am a communist because I’ve done Mao. So now I’m doing hammers and sickles for Communism, and skulls for Fascism”. (cited in: Andy Warhol, Giant Size, Phaidon, New York, 2006, p. 528)