Live Auction 2766Andy Warhol at Christie's Sold to Benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
ANDY WARHOL
Lot 412

ANDY WARHOL

Ladies and Gentlemen: one plate

Closed12 November 2012

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USD 15,625

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ANDY WARHOL
Ladies and Gentlemen: one plate
screenprint in colors, 1975, on Arches paper, aside from the edition of 125 plus 25 artist's proofs, with the 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Authorized by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' inkstamps on the reverse, with full margins, generally in very good condition, framed
Image: 33½ x 26½ in. (851 x 673 mm.)
Sheet: 38¾ x 29¼ in. (984 x 743 mm.)

Specialist note

In 1975 Warhol sent his friend Bob Colacello to the club The Gilded Grape in search of models to pose for him. The drag queen performers were paid $50 for the project and were never told until they arrived at the Factory that their patron was Warhol. The resulting series of exuberant portraits was entitled Ladies and Gentlemen.