Live Auction 2766Andy Warhol at Christie's Sold to Benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
ANDY WARHOL
Lot 438

ANDY WARHOL

Michael Jackson

Closed12 November 2012

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USD 47,500

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ANDY WARHOL
Michael Jackson
screenprint in colors, 1984, on HMP paper, one of a small number of impressions, with the 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Authorized by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' inkstamps on the reverse, the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
Sheet: 31 5/8 x 23¼ in. (803 x 591 mm.)

Specialist note

Warhol was commissioned by TIME Magazine to do a portrait of Michael Jackson for a cover on March 19, 1984. A near perfect subject for Warhol, at the time Michael Jackson was considered the most famous man in the world.