Live Auction 2766Andy Warhol at Christie's Sold to Benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
ANDY WARHOL
Lot 460

ANDY WARHOL

Alexander the Great: one plate

Closed12 November 2012

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USD 74,500

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ANDY WARHOL
Alexander the Great: one plate
screenprint in colors, circa 1982, on thin fibrous wove 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, generally in very good condition, framed
Sheet: 45 x 35 in. (1143 x 889 mm.)

Specialist note

Alexander the Great is based on a Hellenistic bronze bust in a private Swiss collection. By the 1980s Warhol was appropriating themes from across art historical periods for use in his pop pantheon, from Nineteenth Century European paintings to iconic Italian Renaissance portraits. Alexander the Great is Warhol's only series with classical sculpture as its subject.